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Rakesh Kalumula 

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Hello Everyone,

A honeypot is defined as a computer program or a system that is designed to mimic the likely cyberattacks. It is mainly used in detecting of attacks and deflect them from the legitimate targets. In creating understanding, honeypots are important in understanding how cybercriminal conduct attacks. In the recent past, honeypots have gained prominence owing to their contributions in the cyber world. As a result, they have a myriad of advantage to the entities that have implemented honeypots in enhancing their security protocols. The following are some advantages and disadvantages of honeypots.

Advantages

Honeypots works by gathering data only when there is an interaction taking place, this means that the lesser amount of data collected, lower costs are incurred by the business, and this helps an organization in keeping an eye on the costs (Karthikeyan et al., 2017).  IDS usually produce a lot of false warning that are essentially ignored.  For honeypots, any access to them is usually unauthorized and therefore this makes it possible to reduce the false warning. Usually, intrusion detection systems may have a problem in detecting some of undetermined attacks, this is however different for the case of honeypots since every access to honeypots is unauthorized and hence it becomes possible for the honeypot to thwart any access.

Disadvantages

There are also some disadvantages associated with the honeypots despite all the mentioned advantages. Mainly, honeypots tend to monitor activity if there is an outline is an interaction with honeypot. In the event that an attack is launched on another system, honeypots might not be able to recognize such incidents. On the other hand, honeypots are usually the main targets by the attackers and therefore makes them hard to prevent an organization.

Reference

Karthikeyan, R., Geetha, D. T., Shyamamol, K. S., & Sivagami, G. (2017). Advanced Honey Pot Architecture for Network Threats Quantification. the international journal of Engineering and Techniques, 3(2), 2395-1303.

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