Honey Pot Suggestions
We are trying to do some security improvements at our company, and an idea I ran into was setting up a honeypot. Does anyone know of any simple honey pots I could setup on an old P4 system? My boss...
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a honeypot won't give you any security improvements - quite the reverse. It's a system to be able to capture and trace what hackers do so it encourages rather than prevents. Honeypots don't come in...
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I guess the impression I had was that a honey pot lets you know some one is in your network whose not supposed to be there. I was just thinking of putting up an old p4 that sits on the network and...
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Ditoboisy wrote: I was just thinking of putting up an old p4 that sits on the network and does nothing but sit there waiting for some one to access it. That gives you no security. It puts a hacker in...
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Sounds like you might be looking for an intrusion detection system rather than a honeypot? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system
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Everytime I hear this come up my immediate thoughts are HoneyD or Tripwire. Both are Linux implementations. But as some others have said, IDS is more what you may be looking for.
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You don't want to be setting up a honeypot just for the sake of having a honeypot. It's something that should be done only if you seriously know what you're doing, to ensure that someone who does...
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I agree with the above - an IDS would serve you much better with what you are looking to do. If, however, you want to investigate honeypots further (it can be really really interesting), check...
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Thanks for the replies. I'll look into intrusion detection system instead of a honeypot. Any suggestions for an IDS that I can direct my research?
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Use security onion. It is a Linux distro that has a number of different IDS and network security tools all configured to work together. I tried installing snort then barnyard and all the other little...
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First off if your honey pot is behind your perimeter security and it gets owned then you already have BIG problems. Having an owned honeypot at this point doesn't make your situation any worse. If you...
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honeypot = self organized sting operation . just like any sting operation, there needs to be police to manage it.
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I would suggest creating a snort box. This will tell you if someone is trying to get into your system or not.
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We are trying to do some security improvements at our company, and an idea I ran into was setting up a honeypot. Does anyone know of any simple honey pots I could setup on an old P4 system? My boss...
View ArticleHoney Pot Suggestions
a honeypot won't give you any security improvements - quite the reverse. It's a system to be able to capture and trace what hackers do so it encourages rather than prevents. Honeypots don't come in...
View ArticleHoney Pot Suggestions
I guess the impression I had was that a honey pot lets you know some one is in your network whose not supposed to be there. I was just thinking of putting up an old p4 that sits on the network and...
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Ditoboisy wrote: I was just thinking of putting up an old p4 that sits on the network and does nothing but sit there waiting for some one to access it. That gives you no security. It puts a hacker in...
View ArticleHoney Pot Suggestions
Sounds like you might be looking for an intrusion detection system rather than a honeypot? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system
View ArticleHoney Pot Suggestions
Everytime I hear this come up my immediate thoughts are HoneyD or Tripwire. Both are Linux implementations. But as some others have said, IDS is more what you may be looking for.
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