A Guide to Different Kinds of Honeypots
Jamie Riden and Christian Seifert,
2008-02-14
Honeypots come in many shapes and sizes and are available to mimic lots of
different kinds of applications and protocols. We shall take the
definition of a honeypot as "a security resource whose value lies
in being probed, attacked, or compromised"[Spitzner02]. That is, a
honeypot is a system we can monitor to observe how attackers behave, a
system which is designed to lure attackers away from more valuable
systems and/or a system which is designed to provide early warning of
an intrusion to the target network. A honeypot may be used for all three
applications at the same time.