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Canaries In The Wild

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Conversations with security leaders and practitioners about their real-world experience of canaries and honeypots. Our guests share tactics, detection stories, and lessons learned from production deployments - ranging from technical details to the role deception plays in their defensive strategy, we explore the reality of 'canaries in the wild'.From the team at Tracebit.

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Ollie Whitehouse: Building a National Cyber Defence Programme 09.07.2026 35:16

Our latest episode features Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the security mission of GCHQ. Ollie has spent over 23 years working with deception – from running personal honeypots in 2002, through catching state adversaries and a criminal zero-day at a previous employer, to leading NCSC's national-scale cyber deception programme today. He brings a perspective...

Webinar: AI Agents vs. Canaries - Detecting Attacks That Move at AI Speed 26.06.2026 51:49

Can deception slow down autonomous AI attackers? We ran the experiment to find out. Tracebit's Sam Cox (CTO & Co-Founder) and security researcher Alessandro Brucato sit down with Nick Reva, who leads security engineering at DoorDash, to walk through new research on using canaries against autonomous AI attackers. We set 10 frontier AI models loose across 10 attack paths in an AWS environment to...

Kevin Conley - Thinking Like an Attacker and the Psychological Power of Deception 10.02.2026 42:38

Our latest episode features Kevin Conley, Team Lead and Principal Security Engineer of the Deception Technology team at Riot Games, who has built their canary program from the ground up over the past few years. Kevin has spent years deploying and running deception at massive scale - protecting one of the world's largest gaming platforms with hundreds of millions of players. He brings practical exp...

Mandy Andress: Assume Breach, High Fidelity Alerts and Guardrails for AI Agents 18.11.2025 28:20

Andy sits down with Mandy Andress (CISO, Elastic) who has been working with deception technology since the early days of honeypots and honeynets. Mandy brings a CISO's perspective on why canaries deserve a much larger role in modern security programs, and shares her views on how the fundamentals of detection are shifting as environments become more complex and threats evolve. Timestamps: 00:00 Int...

Josh Yavor: High Signal, Low Noise - The Case for Early Canary Deception 13.10.2025 38:52

Andy sits down with Josh Yavor (CEO, Credible Security) to discuss his experience of a decade of deploying deception technology. From building complex malware analysis environments to protecting sensitive IP during third-party data sharing, Josh explains why canaries deliver high-value signals early in your security journey and shares creative use cases including using canaries during active incid...

Didier Vandenbroeck: Catching Red Teams, Insider Threat and the ROI of Canaries 07.09.2025 35:51

Andy sits down with Didier Vanderbroeck (VP Security & IT, Oleria) to discuss the value he's seen from canaries as a detection mechanism over a 25 year career in security. Ranging from getting caught by Salesforce's honeypots while running red-teaming post-Slack acquisition, to what AI means for the future of deception technology; Didier shares his insights on what it means to Assume Breach wi...