Canary Tokens

Breach detection honeypot tokens.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Generate honeypot files (Word, Excel, PDF, executables) and tokens (AWS) which send alerts when triggered e.g. when a file is opened or the API credentials are used. Also supports DNS record, MySQL dump and other types of honeypot tokens. Email or webhook URL notifications. Provides another layer of detection e.g. from malware scraping credentials from laptops. Free service.

Tradeoffs

Token types are more-or-less sufficient, but somewhat limited e.g. only supports AWS tokens (Slack tokens were deprecated).

Is Canary Tokens a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2023-01-26. Summary updated .

Who it’s for

Security teams should consider Canary Tokens for breach detection

Why consider it

Canary Tokens can generate honeypot files and tokens that send alerts when triggered

Keep in mind

The tool has limited token types, only supporting AWS tokens

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