Types of Honey Net Deployments
Below are three types of honeynet deployments
- Pure honeynets: These are entire production systems that monitor attacks via bug taps on the connection connecting the honeynet to the network. They are unsophisticated.
- Low-interaction honeynets: Low-interaction honeynets imitate services and systems that commonly draw criminal interest. They provide a technique for gathering data from blind attacks like botnets and worm infections.
- High-interaction honeynets: These are complicated configurations that behave like actual production infrastructure. They do not restrict a cybercriminal’s degree of activity while delivering substantial cybersecurity knowledge. However, they require more maintenance and the usage of extra technologies like virtual computers to prevent intruders from accessing the real system.
What is Honey Net?
A honeynet network has deliberate vulnerabilities hosted on a decoy server to attract hackers. The primary goal is to put network security to the test by introducing threats. This way enables security specialists to investigate a real attacker’s behaviors and strategies to improve network security. Security teams can employ these decoy systems or servers placed alongside production systems within their networks to serve as appealing targets for attackers to examine attacker behavior patterns.