Traditionally, the area of information security has been purely defensive. Classic examples of the defensive mechanisms used in order to protect communication networks include firewalls, encryption and IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems). The strategy follows the classical security paradigm of "Protect, Detect and React.” In other words, try to protect the network as best as possible, [...]
How to Use Honeypots to Improve Your Network Security
August 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: · antivirus, Encryption, Firewall, Honeypots, Intrusion Detection, Malware, Network Security
A Guide to Different Kinds of Honeypots
February 15th, 2008 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: · Hacking botnet, Honeypots