CS0-004: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

A honeypot deployed in an isolated environment acts as a decoy system designed to attract attackers and capture detailed information about their reconnaissance methods, tools, and techniques as they scan and enumerate it. Because it is separated from production, it can safely absorb and log this custom scanning/enumeration activity without risk to real assets, giving defenders rich, actionable intelligence on the specific techniques being used against the organization — which is exactly what the CISO needs to prioritize mitigations. Canary tokens only alert on access to a decoy artifact rather than capturing broad technique data, industry threat-intel feeds provide only generic, non-company-specific information, and a WAF only logs attacks against web applications rather than general network scanning and enumeration activity.