HoneyPots

Introduction

[1] Deception is a mechanism that attempts to distort or mislead an attacker into taking a course of action that is more suited to the goals of the defender.

A common deception defense is the use of network honeypots.

A honeypot is a commuter system that is designed to be a trap for unauthorized accesses.

Honeypots are deployed within a network to appear like normal, active systems to an outsider.

How to build honeypots

• Mimicking
• One of the deception technique is mimicking. A honeypot attempts to mimic a real system to fool the adversary into probing and/or attacking it. 
• The amount of interaction the honeypots respond to queries with information that represents a possible system within the infrastructure but unlike a normal system, it maintains a very detailed logs of all interactions.  From these detailed logs, administrators can gain insight into an attacker's goal and methods as well as put in place other measures to hopes of preventing an attack. 

Reference

[1] Probabilistic Performance Analysis of Moving Target and Deception Reconnaissance Defenses, by Michael Crouse, in MTD15