Network security resource: Honeypot

In today's society people becomes more and more dependent on computer systems. The Internet shows an increasing trend regarding the usage of malicious activities such as intrusion attempts, denial-of-service attacks, phishing, spamming and worms which makes use of compromised web servers. To try to minimize this threat, it would be nice to have a security system which has the ability to detect new attacks and react on them. Use of honeypots provides effective solution to increase the security and reliability of the network. Honeypots, systems to lure and research attackers, are subject to intensive research for quite some time. They do not ‘fix’ anything. Instead, honeypots are a tool. How you use that tool is up to you and depends on what you are attempting to achieve. It is hoped that this paper helps in clear understanding of honeypots.