7 Steps to Design and Develop an Adaptive Honeypot

Honeypots are secret workhorses in the cybersecurity world. They help us create innovative strategies to defend our systems. How? Well, they allow researchers and cybersecurity experts trap and study harmful activities. By understanding adversary behavior, we can design new methods to detect threats and get a better grasp of the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity risks.

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There’s a lot to cover when it comes to designing and developing a honeypot. There are five points we need to consider:

1. Understanding the different categories of honeypots: There are two categories of honeypots. These are production honeypots and research honeypots. Production honeypots are simpler and are used within an organization to detect and deflect attacks. Research honeypots are used to gather information about the tactics and motives of cybercriminals. Personally, I am interested in research honeypots.
2. Choosing the right honeypot type: There are three types of honeypots. I’ll explain these in more detail shortly. For now, I want us to know the type of honeypot determines the volume of behavior we can capture.
3. Setting up the honeypot: We need to think ahead to installing and configuring the honeypot software on a system or network. It’s important to make the honeypot attractive to attackers, but also…