TERM

Honeytokens

is data that looks attractive to cyber criminals but is actually false or of no value

Updated

Jan 06, 2026

Senses

Sense 1

is data that looks attractive to cyber criminals but is actually false or of no value a fake IT resource created and positioned in a system or network to appear to a cyber criminals to be of value, but is actually used to allow tracking and detection of hacking attempts

is data that looks attractive to cyber criminals but is actually false or of no value

a fake IT resource created and positioned in a system or network to appear to a cyber criminals to be of value, but is actually used to allow tracking and detection of hacking attempts

NICCS (CISA) Cybersecurity Vocabulary

Bibliography

NICCS (CISA) Cybersecurity Vocabulary
Accessed Jan 06, 2026Quoted
NICCS glossary export (CSV)
https://niccs.cisa.gov/rest/vocab/export-csv
NICCS is a CISA (DHS) program. Individual glossary entries include a "From" attribution (e.g., CNSSI 4009, NIST SPs, NICE Framework). Treat "From" values as upstream provenance and verify before quoting large portions of text.
Source: NICCS (CISA) Cybersecurity Vocabulary (niccs.cisa.gov).