HoneyPi: A Sample AI-Generated Threat Report

I wanted to post a sample of the AI-Generated reporting that I was able to achieve with only a little bit of tweaking to the prompts in the base script. The value add here for someone in my position with limited time and resources is incredible. My next implementation of this, will be internal focused on that Security Onion stack and the report will be directed at what I need to address daily on my internal assets. ...

June 18, 2026 · 12 min · Joshua Burnett

HoneyPi Part 6: AI Reporting

The previous two posts got all three streams into Loki, unified by src_ip and joinable by Community ID. That’s a powerful dataset, but it has a problem: it’s enormous. A single day produces tens of thousands of Cowrie events, thousands of Suricata alerts, and thousands of Zeek records. Nobody is reading that by hand every morning. This post covers the layer that makes the whole thing usable, a Python script that pulls the day’s data, scores attackers by how interesting they are, and hands the most significant ones to Claude to write up as per-attacker narratives. ...

June 17, 2026 · 9 min · Joshua Burnett

HoneyPi Part 3: Enrichment Planning

Now we get into the part of the project that I have little to no experience in. While I have used the tools, I don’t have years of working knowledge and I have certainly never combined them in this way in an attempt to build a narrative around an attack. Thus enter my good buddy Claude to fill in the gaps. I knew what I wanted, but not how to get there. I have been in school with SANS for some time now and while I have learned an absolute ton, I don’t claim myself to be an expert in anything. Since this is my first experience setting up a honeypot like this, I started reading about different ways to parse the data… and man there are a lot of them. I decided that while I could follow a write up of someone that had come before me to the letter and have a working solution in no time, I would probably learn more by explaining what I wanted to AI and having it coach me through the process. ...

June 13, 2026 · 5 min · Joshua Burnett