Our Mission & Values
Honeybear exists to democratize threat intelligence. We build honeypot infrastructure that makes early breach detection accessible to every organization, not just the ones with seven-figure security budgets.
Why we built Honeybear
Intelligence for everyone
Threat intelligence shouldn't be a luxury. We believe every security team, from one-person shops to enterprise SOCs, deserves high-quality indicators of compromise without vendor lock-in.
European at our core
Built and operated in the EU under GDPR. We don't sell data, we don't track users, and we never will. Your security posture is your business — our job is to strengthen it.
Radical transparency
We publish our threat data, share our detection rules, and open-source our tooling wherever possible. When security is transparent, everyone wins — except the attackers.
Honeybear was founded on the simple idea that honeypots, when deployed at scale and analyzed intelligently, can give defenders the early-warning advantage that attackers have exploited for decades. We're closing that gap, one decoy at a time.
Our values
The principles that guide every decision we make, from architecture to pricing.
Privacy by default
We collect the minimum data needed to detect threats. No tracking, no profiling, no data brokerage. Ever.
Trust through action
We earn trust by shipping working software, not by making promises. Our code is open, our uptime is public, our threat feeds are verifiable.
European values
GDPR-compliant infrastructure hosted in the EU. We believe data sovereignty and cybersecurity are two sides of the same coin.
Radical simplicity
No bloated dashboards. No 12-month onboarding. Just clear signals about who's knocking on your digital doors and what they're after.
These aren't marketing bullet points. They're the standards we hold ourselves to every sprint, every deploy, and every customer conversation.
Defenders, not vendors
We're a small team of security engineers, data scientists, and open-source contributors who got tired of watching organizations get breached because they couldn't afford enterprise threat intelligence.
Our approach is simple: deploy honeypots at internet scale, collect the attack data, and deliver actionable intelligence back to the defenders who need it most. No middlemen, no markups, no nonsense.
- Founded by security practitioners, not venture capitalists
- 100% self-funded — we answer to our users, not investors
- Hardware appliance. Simple per-unit pricing.
- Built in Europe, for the world