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honeypot
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honeypot

A server that is configured to detect an intruder by mirroring a real production system. It appears as an ordinary server doing work, but all the data and transactions are phony. Located either in or outside the firewall, the honeypot is used to learn about an intruder's techniques as well as determine vulnerabilities in the real system.

Honeynets
A "honeynet" is a network containing honeypots. A "virtual honeynet" is one that resides in a single server, but pretends to be a full network. See firewall, darknet, honeyproxy and honeymonkey.



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According to simulations by the Israeli team, severely limiting the virus' spread in a network would require relatively few honeypots.
Network inoculation: antivirus shield would outrace cyber infections by Weiss, Peter / Science News
So far, investment zones like the much advertised 'Moscow City' just up river of the historic core have not proved the honeypots to foreign capital the planners had hoped.
View from Moscow: as capitalism makes its presence felt in Russia, ... by Cooke, Catherine / The Architectural Review
Researchers and security professionals have been using different forms of honeypots since computers were first interconnected.
A sweet solution: honeypots distract hackers from valuable networks. ... by Hernacki, Brian / Computer Technology Review
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