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Article: Honeypot: A Simple Security Safeguard with Big Payoffs.
- Article from:
- Info-Tech Advisor Newsletter
- Article date:
- December 14, 1999
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(Interactive Week Online Article, SANS Institute Resources)
A 'honeypot' is a security program designed to lure hackers with an enticing collection of decoy data. Based on the well known "like a bear to honey" metaphor, honeypots are one of the few tools around that put security control back into the hands of systems administrators by giving them a way to distract, and then observe, a network attacker. Here is a brief rundown on how honeypots work:
* A honeypot simulates a network service designated on a port of your Web server, e-mail server, or domain name server. The honeypot's goal is to look and act like a legitimate computer - a "fake" point of ...