Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, monitoring tool, and alerting system. It is an open-source Python driven tool for making it difficult for attackers to hit your network. Attackers utilize predefined patterns in most cases for attacking systems and servers.

Artillery takes advantage of that by making vulnerabilities and exposures look like they are existent when they are really not there. When the attacker goes after a given port, Artillery sends random data back to the attacker then bans them permanently.

In addition to the active banning and honeypot portions of Artillery, there is also file integrity monitoring, server health checks, and hardening checks.