Forum : Technical

07/14/2004
Business Assurance: Honeypots & Honeynet
Fact: Honeypots and honeynets are hardware or software systems designed to attract users acting illicitly, cyber decoys or booby traps on servers, PCs, switches or routers that divert those apparently intent on unauthorized access or use, and to monitor, identify, incriminate and discover their methodologies.  Government and corporate IT security and law enforcement personnel use honeypots/nets against hackers and cyber criminal acts and to protect production networks.  Some honeypots trace and collect user identities (e.g. investigators targeting financial crimes, child porn/exploitation, spammers, copyright violators and counterfeiters), while some research unauthorized use patterns.                Analysis: Privacy rights, entrapment and wiretap law limitations are currently subjects
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