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Discussion 1

Hello, it was interesting to read your post. It is indeed true that honeypots are much expensive than the real security system. There exist several issues with honeypots and most of which make 'it hard for individuals to deal with them. One such issue is individuals' lack of familiarity with them, as you have stated in the post. The main objective of designing and using honeypots is for the attackers to make brute attacks on the system without being noticed by the administration. This is the reason why if a single honeypot gets into the system, it can end up being used to compromise the entire host system, as you have stated in your post. As you have stated in your post, a honeypot is highly relied upon when individuals are considering acquiring valuable intelligence from an organization but one that is still not the most sensitive. Some of the questions which arise with the usage of honeypots in such ventures are whether they can be used by forces to help counter-terrorism. In the age of technology, police are using the internet and its filtering capabilities to identify terrorists and how they conduct recruitment (Sharma & Kaul, 2018).

Discussion 2

Hello, it was interesting to read your post; it was informative. From your research, you have identified the primary objective of honeypot being diversion of assassins so as to extract critical information and data about them by following all the moves they make. This objective does not, however, acknowledge whether there are means of injecting honeypots to the assassins and whether they have measures of protecting their systems against such attempts. Honey pots have been noted to be effective at identifying potential assaults, as you have stated in your post. They are, however, not much effective as attacks still occur in their presence and can only identify a single attack at a time, as you have stated in the post.

References

Sharma, S., & Kaul, A. (2018). A survey on Intrusion Detection Systems and Honeypot based proactive security mechanisms in VANETs and VANET Cloud. Vehicular Communications, 12, 138-164.