Honey pots

• It is a decoy system designed to lure potential attackers away from the critical systems.
• They are designed to
• divert an attacker from accessing critical systems.
• collect information about the hackers activity.
• encourage the attacker to stay on the system long enough for administrators to document the event and perhaps respond.
• If this not properly controlled this is vulnerable to attacks from attackers.
• There are two types of honey pot
1. production honey pot - for companies, not much information about attackers.
2. research honey pot - research organizations use this to gather information about attackers.
• Now there are honey pot detection system. attackers use this to detect honey pots.