Honeypots excel at this capability, due to their advantages.Detecting the burglar when he breaks in.They do NOT work against automated attacks: Deception, Deterence, Decoys, are phsychological weapons.Honeypots, in general are not effective prevention mechanisms.Keeping the burglar out of your house.Based on the concept of honeypots, they also have disadvantages:.Reduce False Positives and False Negatives.Based on how honeypots conceptually work, they have several advantages.One of the greatest areas of confusion concerning honeypot technologies.Research (Counter-Intelligence) Marty’s idea.Their value, and the problems they help solve, depend on how build, deploy, and you use them.Honeypots do not solve a specific problem, instead they are a tool that contribute to your overall security architecture.
1990/1991 The Cuckoo’s Egg and Evening with Berferd.This confusion has caused lack of understanding, and adoption.Variety of misconceptions about honeypots, everyone has their own definition.Purpose To introduce you to honeypots, what they are, how they work, their value. Senior Security Architect, Sun Microsystems.