Comparative Study of Different Honeypots System

–A honeypot is a closely monitored network decoy serving several purposes: it can distract adversaries from more valuable machines on a network, provide early warning about new attack and exploitation trends and allow indepth examination of adversaries during and after exploitation of a honeypot. The concept of honeypots was first proposed in Clifford Stoll's book “The Cuckoo's Egg", and Bill Cheswick's paper “An Evening with Berferd”. Honeypots as an easy target for the attackers can simulate many vulnerable hosts in the network and provide us with valuable information of the attackers. Honeypots are not the solution to the network security but they are tools which are implemented for discovering unwanted activities on a network. They are not intrusion detectors, but they teach us how to improve our network security or more importantly, teach us what to look for. Honeypot is a system which is built and set up in order to be hacked. Except for this, honeypot is also a trap system for the attackers which is deployed to counteract the resources of the attacker and slow him down, thus he wastes his time on the honeypot instead of attacking the production systems. This paper discusses honeypots basics, types of honeypots, various honeypots, advantages and disadvantages of honeypots and the last section presents the comparison between different honeypots systems. Keywords––Honeypots, Honeyd, Specter, Network Security, Honeynet.