# Knossos: Procedurally Generated Decoy Environments

DevFeed: [Knossos: Procedurally Generated Decoy Environments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/knossos-procedurally-generated-decoy-environments-51389.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.praetorian.com/blog/knossos-decoy-environments/>)

Author: Praetorian

Published: 2026-07-02T17:41:38Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Praetorian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/praetorian.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Amazon VPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-vpc.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [identity and access management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/identity-and-access-management.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [function](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/function.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [attack-path-mapping](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attack-path-mapping.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [cloud-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-security.md>), [iam-roles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam-roles.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [offensive-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offensive-security.md>), [praetorian-guard-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/praetorian-guard-platform.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [security-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-insights.md>)

## AI overview

Praetorian describes Knossos, a procedural engine that learns a customer's real cloud infrastructure and generates realistic AWS decoy environments. These environments can include VPCs, subnets, EC2 instances, databases, Lambda functions, S3 buckets, IAM roles, and secrets, while recording and scoring attacker interactions.

## Source excerpt

How we built a procedural engine that learns your real cloud environment, generates decoy environments indistinguishable from production, and converts every attacker interaction into signal. In the myth, Daedalus built the Labyrinth of Knossos so well that he nearly couldn't escape it himself. The corridors looked real. The paths felt purposeful. And the deeper you [...] The post Knossos: Procedurally Generated Decoy Environments appeared first on Praetorian.