Protecting A Network Using Honey Pots
You can feel confident against hacker-attacks if you have right security in place. So, what all do you to need to feel confident? What is the right kind of security? What security technologies are available? How you can defend against hacker attacks? How hackers work? Do you really know all?
Wanna know, then read on
In order to attack someones network, you will need to know as much as you can about that network, so gathering as much information as possible is pretty much where they all start. The information can be technical or non-technical, for example, the partners of the target can be useful for them to know, the location of all office branches etc. This information can help hackers understand the possible technologies in place to stop them.
For the technical side of the information, they will need to know things like, IP addresses and the number of services running on how many servers etc.
Now as an example if you found SERVER-A with only port 80 open and SERVER-B with ports 21, 25, 80, 110, 143, 443 open on target network, where you will start from? Your obvious choice would be SERVER-B as said more services means more entry points, if you can bypass the security of any entry point you get access, while for SERVER-A, you have only one entry point.
Now what if I deployed SERVER-B just to grab your attention, distracting you from some meaningful server SERVER-A. I may install a (fake) server SERVER-B for hackers to attack so as to safe guard my production servers, as soon as they start I can now study attack patterns. Is it not a brilliant idea? That’s called the honey pot.
Basically, what a honey pot is is effectively a trap designed to detect, distract and generally counter attempts to hack into your servers. Usually its in the form of data or a network that appears to be part of your main system and to contain valuable data, but in fact its isolated and monitored.
However, honey pots can contain risks to your system as if their not set up properly and isolated completely, hacker can use them to gain access to your system. There are two main kinds of honey pot which you can tell the difference between by the situations they’re used in. The two types are:
1. Production Honeypots 2. Research Honeypots
Production honeypots are easy to use, capture only limited information, and are used primarily by companies or corporations; Production honeypots are placed inside the production network with other production servers by organization to improve their overall state of security
Research Honey Pots Usually run by voluntary workers or institutions of IT education in order to collect more and more information about the tactics of modern hackers to develop better defence systems.
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