Yuan Ze University Partnered with Junmeng Technology to Establish an Industry–Academia Platform for Cyber Deception and Threat Luring

In response to the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks, supply chain intrusions, and zero-day exploits, enterprise cybersecurity has evolved beyond the question of whether a system had been breached to whether organizations could accurately interpret attack behaviors, assess risks in real time, and respond effectively.

To address this challenge, Yuan Ze University partnered with Junmeng Technology to launch an industry–academia collaboration project focused on Cyber Deception Technology. By integrating academic research with industry practice, the two parties jointly developed a practical cybersecurity defense and exercise platform designed for cross-industry deployment, enhancing enterprises’ proactive defense capabilities.

Yuan Ze University had long been committed to cybersecurity talent cultivation and forward-looking technology research, while Junmeng Technology had accumulated extensive experience in offensive and defensive security operations and Security Operations Center (SOC) management across the financial, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. Centered on real-world enterprise attack scenarios, this collaboration covered high-risk environments such as manufacturing, technology, and financial supply chains, and aimed to develop deployable deception workflows, integrated technical architectures, and incident response and exercise models.

Professor De‑En Wei from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, explained that by integrating deception technologies with enterprise SIEM, SOC, and EDR systems, attackers could be guided into simulated environments for detection and behavioral analysis before reaching core systems. This approach significantly reduced the risks associated with zero-day vulnerabilities, lateral movement, and supply chain infiltration. He emphasized that the collaboration highlighted the principles of “proactive luring, early detection, and precise response,” directly aligning research outcomes with real-world enterprise security needs.

Jia‑Hai Zheng, General Manager of Junmeng Technology, noted that enterprises were not lacking cybersecurity tools, but rather actionable intelligence and decision-making foundations at the moment an attack occurred. The core value of cyber deception lies in exposing attack paths early, reconstructing attacker intent, and providing SOC teams and management with practical response references. He added that through this collaboration, deception deployment strategies could be validated across industries with varying levels of cybersecurity maturity, transforming observed data into defense models that could be exercised, analyzed, and continuously optimized.

Within the collaborative framework, faculty members and students from Yuan Ze University worked with the hardware and software platforms provided by Junmeng Technology to support small and medium-sized enterprises and their supply chain risks through joint defense implementation and preventive exercises. Together, the two parties established a demonstrative industry–academia joint defense environment and planned enterprise-level training programs and hands-on capability development. Through these efforts, cyber deception technologies were advanced from academic research into everyday enterprise operations, becoming a critical cornerstone of next-generation proactive cybersecurity defense.