How Cross Country Communications Corp. deployed HoneyTrap Pro™ at a Texas automotive dealership — building a layered deception defense that sits silent, watchful, and ready.
Automotive dealerships are among the most targeted small-to-medium businesses in the country. They process customer credit applications, handle sensitive financial data, and maintain access to manufacturer systems — all of which represent premium targets for ransomware operators and data thieves.
This Texas dealership is a full-service operation managed by Cross Country Communications Corp. CCC had already hardened the network with a next-generation firewall, strict network segmentation across management, guest, and dealer operations, and endpoint protection on all dealer workstations.
The question wasn't whether the perimeter was solid. It was: what happens when something gets past it? HoneyTrap Pro™ was deployed to answer that question — and to make sure the answer would be caught before it became a breach.
HoneyTrap Pro™ emulates every service an attacker would expect to find on a dealership network — from Windows file shares and remote desktop to industrial control protocols and database servers. Any lateral movement attempt that touches one of these services triggers an immediate alert, automated firewall block, and full session log — no human intervention required.
HoneyTrap Pro™ doesn't just detect — it acts. The moment a honeypot service is touched, automated response chains fire simultaneously without any human intervention required.
The firewall integration maintains a dynamically updated block group. Any attacker IP is added instantly, dropping all traffic from that source across every policy on the network.
Endpoint protection receives attacker IPs as new indicators of compromise, correlating them against all workstation telemetry across the dealership fleet — catching any device that may have already communicated with that IP before the honeypot caught it.
HoneyCloud™ simultaneously logs the event, generates an alert, and contributes the attacker IP to the shared threat intelligence feed protecting every other MSP on the platform.
Five canary token files are deployed on the dealership network — bait documents that look exactly like the kind of sensitive files an attacker or malicious insider would target. The moment any of these files is opened, accessed, or exfiltrated, an immediate HIGH severity alert fires across every integrated platform. They have never been triggered. That's exactly what we want.
A properly secured network with full deception coverage — silent, invisible to legitimate users, and lethal to anyone who moves where they shouldn't.
Perimeter security stops most threats. HoneyTrap Pro™ catches the ones that don't stop.