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Vasanth Kumar Reddy Thipparthi 

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Advantages and disadvantages of a honey pot

With the use of a honey pot, organizations are able to engage in deception by making use of a feature that deliberately misleads the attackers or the adversaries, with the aim of pushing them away from critical assets of an organization. Proper use of the honey pots makes it easy for an organization to accurately study the attackers’ behaviors before they actualize their attacks on an organization’s critical resources. With this understanding, an organization then gets a good starting point as it seeks to enhance its overall information and information resources security (Amoroso, 2011). The use of honeypots has various advantages as well as disadvantages.

Advantages

The first advantage of using honeypots is that through its exploitation, an organization is able to develop further security measures, as it helps in attracting the attackers and studying their behavior before they have an access to the actual organizational resources (Amoroso, 2011). This is to mean that through the use of the honey pot, an organization can effectively identify the vulnerabilities that the attackers are likely to use, and will in effect institute measures that will address those vulnerabilities.

The second advantage is that through the use of honeypots, organizations are able to understand their working environments and security status better. Honeypots will assist in studying the attackers with the aim of understanding how they typically execute their operations. As organizations make use of the honey pots, they can be observing the real-time events and occurrences and gain useful insights to improve their security (Amoroso, 2011).

Disadvantages

Despite its advantages, the use of honeypots has different disadvantages or shortcomings. One of these disadvantages is that its effectiveness is highly reliant on the situation where the attacker does not understand that it is just a decoy which is being used, for the organization to understand their behavior. Once the attacker understands this, they cannot proceed with their malicious intentions (Amoroso, 2011).

The other disadvantage is that it is quite technical or complex for an organization to ensure that the attacker fully believes that whatever they are attacking are real resources. These attackers are knowledgeable, and may be aware of how typical honeypots look like. In such a case, an organization has an uphill task of ensuring that the attacker in question does not doubt the functionality of the honeypot as a critical resource which is worth an attacking (Amoroso, 2011).

References

Amoroso, E. G. (2011). Cyber attacks: Protecting national infrastructure. Elsevier.

 

 

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