What is a cybersecurity deception engineer?

A Cybersecurity Deception Engineer is a professional who designs, implements, and manages deception technologies within an organization's cybersecurity infrastructure. Their main role is to create decoys, traps, and fake assets that mimic real systems to lure, detect, and analyze cyber attackers without exposing actual sensitive data. This proactive approach helps organizations identify threats early, understand attacker behavior, and strengthen their overall security posture. Deception engineers often collaborate with incident response teams and use specialized tools to deploy and monitor these deceptive environments.