Honeypots

By: Talha Riaz

History of Honeypots

• 1990/1991 The Cuckoo’s Egg and Evening with Berferd.

• 1997 - Deception Toolkit.

• 1998 - CyberCop Sting.

• 1998 - NetFacade (and Snort).

• 1998 - BackOfficer Friendly.

• 1999 - Formation of the Honeynet Project.

• 2001 - Worms captured.

Definition

A honey pot is a computer system on the Internet that is expressly set up to attract and "trap" people who attempt to penetrate other people's computer systems. (This includes the hacker, cracker, and script kiddy.)

Honey Pot Systems are decoy servers or systems setup to gather information regarding an attacker or intruder into your system. It is important to remember that Honey Pots do not replace other traditional Internet security systems; they are an additional level or system.

Level of Interaction Low Interaction

Simulates some aspects of the system

Honeyd

Easy to deploy, minimal risk

Limited Information

High Interaction

Simulates all aspects of the OS: real systems

Can be compromised completely, higher risk

More Information

Honeynet

Level of Interaction

Physical vs. Virtual Honeypots

Physical Honeypots

are actual (physical)

computers that are

set up with additional

logging and security

mechanisms

o Virtual Honeypots are a software package that allows you to fake numerous computer distributions at various places over the network from one computer.

Physical, Virtual Honeypots And

Hybrid System

Classification of Honeypot

Location of Honeypots

In front of the firewall

Demilitarized Zone

Behind the firewall (Intranet)

Conclusion The implementation I created addressed the problems

with open source Honeypots.

Virtualization makes easy to deploy honeypots .

Honeyd needs some improvements to make this system as complete and functional as it could be.

Moving Honeypot technology to easy to deploy read-only mediums is the best implementation.

References

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/

honey-pot

https://www.sans.org/security-

resources/idfaq/honeypot3.php