Honeypots: Whitepaper announcement on honeypot user's survey

[alamb () mail rit edu]

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I am pleased to announce a short whitepaper written about a survey of current honeypot mailing list users. Please read 
the abstract below for more information and follow the link to read the paper:

Link: http://www.rit.edu/~arl7969/whitepapers/alamb-3-2006.html

Abstract:

As honeypot and honeynet technologies continue to mature, it is important for the security community to understand what 
honeypot user's need are, and what level of abilities they have with technologies. When the security community 
understands these needs and abilites, they may better serve new technology and service solutions to honeypot users.

A survey was conducted among the SecurityFocus.com Honeypot mailing list to ascertain the level of expertise in several 
honeypot technologies and the types of technologies that were being used "out in the field". The results show that most 
users are interested in new bleeding-edge technologies, and that they run a few honeypots to mimic production systems 
for their own personal interest to see what kind of malicious traffic may be entering their network(s).