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What is a Honeypot?
A honeypot is a decoy system deliberately set up to look like a real, valuable target, luring attackers away from production systems while security teams observe their techniques.
Because a honeypot has no legitimate business purpose, any traffic that touches it is almost certainly malicious, which makes its alerts far more reliable than alerts from a production system full of normal user activity.
- Low-interaction honeypots simulate services just enough to log connection attempts
- High-interaction honeypots run real operating systems and applications to capture detailed attacker behavior
- Honeynets link multiple honeypots together to observe how attackers move laterally
Security teams use the intelligence gathered to update firewall rules, IDS signatures, and threat intelligence feeds.
Why are honeypot alerts considered highly reliable?
What is a honeynet?
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