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honeypot: a standalone construct

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Information security

A decoy system that lures and watches attackers

In information security a honeypot is a system deliberately set up to have no legitimate use, so that any interaction with it is by definition suspicious; it lures attackers in to detect intrusions, study their methods, and draw them away from real assets, while its activity is logged for analysis. Spitzner's Honeypots: Tracking hackers lays out the concept, its low- and high-interaction forms, and its value and risks. The referent is a decoy whose whole worth is being attacked, an entirely different thing from an ant, joined to it only by the idea of a tempting pot of something sweet.[1]

Unit
The attacker interactions observed and the intelligence captured
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Evaluated by interaction level, time-to-compromise, and the quality of attack data and indicators collected

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References

  1. Spitzner, L. (2002). Honeypots: Tracking hackers. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780321108951

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