Data Honeytokens for the Cloud Era - Petrus Vasenius
Disobey 2026 · Main Stage
In an era where organizational data is increasingly decentralized across vast cloud ecosystems, traditional perimeter and identity-centric security controls often fall short when confronted with an authenticated, authorized user. Petrus Vasenius, Cloud Security Advisory Lead at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, presented a compelling talk at Disobey, introducing the concept of **data honeytokens** as a robust defense mechanism against data exfiltration, particularly from insider threats or compromised legitimate credentials.
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Competent, well-structured talk on an underutilized defensive technique — data honeytokens in cloud environments — with solid Microsoft stack implementation detail and honest operational tuning advice. Nothing here is novel to anyone who's read the canary token literature or run deception tooling before, but Vasenius executes the 'here's how to actually build this on Azure' angle cleanly enough to be useful to a practitioner audience.