Case Study: a leading Middle Eastern telecom company establishes an IoT and OT honeypot with Sectrio

Leading Middle Eastern Telecom Company - Customer Case Study

A leading Middle Eastern telecom company sought to establish a high-interaction honeypot to study real-time cyber threats targeting IoT, OT, and IT environments. The challenge was to create a hyper-realistic, secure lab that could sequester and analyze threats without any risk to their core networks, all while gathering actionable threat intelligence. The company partnered with cybersecurity vendor Sectrio to address this complex need.

Sectrio designed and deployed a comprehensive honeypot lab featuring a wide array of simulated IoT, OT, and IT devices to engage and deceive threat actors. The solution included advanced monitoring tools and a secured "honeywall" to contain all activity. As a result, the telecom giant now operates one of the largest such facilities in the region, enabling early attack detection, valuable threat intelligence gathering, and improved incident response, all while effectively reducing risk by diverting attacks away from its critical assets.