HONEYPOTS FOR NETWORK SURVEILLANCE

A honeypot is a non-production system which offers sweet bait to the intruders, blackhat community [1] that can enhance the ability of system administrators to identify system vulnerabilities. This paper presents a survey on recent advances in honeypot research from a review of 20+ papers on honeypots and related topics. A recent technology in the area of intrusion detection is honeypot technology that unlike common IDSs tends to provide the attacker with all the necessary resources needed for a successful attack. Honeypots provide a platform to study the approaches and tools used by the intruders, thus acquiring their value from the unauthorized use of their resources.