Patent 11374971 was granted and assigned to Micro Focus Limited on June, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system accesses information regarding a topology of an arrangement of resources, where one of the resources is a multi-tiered resource having a plurality of layers. Based on the information regarding the topology of the arrangement of resources, the system selects one or more layers of the multi-tiered resource for deployment of a deception server that has a reduced security mechanism to act as a decoy to attract attackers of the system. The system deploys the deception server at the selected one or more layers of the multi-tiered resource.