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Hyperion Honeypot: AI-Powered Anomaly Detection

An AI-driven honeypot system that dynamically adapts its behavior and deployed services to mimic real-world corporate IT environments, attracting and analyzing attacker tactics in a low-cost, automated manner. By learning from attacker behavior, it refines its deceptive techniques and identifies emerging threats.

The project, inspired by the layered mysteries of Hyperion and the social stratification of Metropolis, aims to create a cybersecurity honeypot that uses AI to learn and adapt to evolving threat landscapes. The 'Hyperion Honeypot' doesn't just passively wait for attacks; it actively lures them by mimicking a realistic corporate network, complete with simulated databases, web servers, and user activity. Using data scraped and structured similar to the 'AI Workflow for Companies' scraper project (but focused on common corporate IT configurations and vulnerabilities), the honeypot dynamically adjusts its presented services and fake data to appear as a tempting target. Anomaly detection, powered by a lightweight machine learning model, identifies deviations from expected behavior within the honeypot. This model is continuously trained on the attacker's actions, allowing the honeypot to recognize new attack patterns and refine its deception strategies. The 'Metropolis' inspiration manifests in the layered architecture: a basic, easily deployable 'worker' honeypot providing the initial attack surface, and a more sophisticated 'overseer' AI analyzing the collected data and deploying updated configurations to multiple 'worker' honeypots. This decentralized approach distributes risk and enhances the system's resilience. Low-cost is achieved by using open-source tools (e.g., Docker, Python, Scikit-learn, Zeek/Suricata) and readily available cloud computing resources (e.g., AWS Free Tier, Google Cloud Platform free credits). The high earning potential comes from several avenues: selling subscriptions to pre-configured 'Hyperion Honeypot' deployments tailored to specific industries; providing threat intelligence reports derived from analyzing attacker behavior within the honeypots; and offering custom honeypot development and deployment services for larger organizations needing highly specialized threat intelligence capabilities. The project is niche because it focuses on active deception and AI-driven adaptation, moving beyond traditional passive honeypots.

Project Details

Area: Cybersecurity Method: AI Workflow for Companies Inspiration (Book): Hyperion - Dan Simmons Inspiration (Film): Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang

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