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Discussion 1:

Honeypots cost about a hundred times as much as a real security system. The biggest problem with honeypots, aside from the cost, is the lack of familiarity with them. For one thing, since each honeypot can be fixed to a specific administrative IP address, the attacker does not need to change his IP address in order to gain access to the honeypots. The honeypots are more useful because they enable compliance with AS/NZS/IEC and earlier (Grimes, 2006). They provide human-scanned logs of actions and are harder to use to make brute-force password attempts. Furthermore, the honeypots are usually designed so that the administrator is not concerned about the attacker obtaining one of the honeypots and using it to compromise the host system. The honeypot then provides a constant, available, and controllable attack surface. Traceability, even though cannot trace everyone that are still able to do it differently. Maintainability, an organization can always put in a new security program and replace all the old programs since the new one will also be it is a patch for the time being. Functionality, it just made a few changes to test all programs to have a look in detail at the things which could be misused (Grimes, 2006).

 The concept for honeypot uses only comes into being when one considers how to acquire valuable intelligence on an organization best, in most cases collecting data that is by no means the most sensitive. The real problem is that these honeypots do not help in the fight against terrorism. This would have been true if the intelligence services had destroyed all the possible sources of intelligence. However, they did not, they took off all the traps they had prepared for themselves and put them on people who are not terrorists and who are identified as innocent citizens. In other words, the intelligence agencies get an easy win. If the intelligence services are happy that the police are searching the Internet to find out how terrorist organizations do their recruiting and propaganda, well, they are just getting more and more intimate with the Internet and its filtering systems (Sharma & Kaul, 2018)

References

Grimes, R. A. (2006). Honeypots for Windows. Apress.

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.

Discussion 2:

Honeypot - Advantages & Disadvantages

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The fundamental objective of Honeypot is to divert the assassin from genuine frameworks in order to extract critical data and information about them with the devices and endeavors they use. The constant to and fro traffic of a honeypot  is dubious and unapproved as a result of the way that no creation administrations are given by this asset. All the valuable information gathered by a honeypot is  intriguing and it never builds large backlogs. It can additionally be utilized for avoidance of assaults and can suspend aggressors from other frameworks by possessing their assets for long span. The data gathering for an assault relies upon the degree of following empowered on the honeypot (Lance Spitzner, 2003).

Advantages: 

- Honeypots can capture assaults and provide the required information and  data about the assault type as per requirements. 

- It  helps in extracting and  identifying any potential assaults that may occur. 

-  It supports on focusing on the limited  malignant traffic  which helps in speeding up the research of the investigation and lays out a simpler path to achieve results in no time.

- It is very cost effective as any PC can be adapted to be a honeypot framework. (Lance Spitzner, 2003) 

Disadvantages:

-  possibility of extracting information and data of the assassin  is limited to the time frame of the attack  in process. 

-  It is limited to identifying one attack at a time.

-  fingerprinting process is disservice of honeypots. It is easy for an accomplished programmer to comprehend on the off chance that he is assaulting a honeypot framework or a genuine framework. 

- The honeypot might be utilized as a zombie to arrive at different frameworks and bargain them  (Lance Spitzner, 2003).

Reference: 

Lance Spitzner (2003).  The Value of Honeypots  retrieved from -   https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30489

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