Analysis of Client Honeypots

With the growing popularity of Internet, security has become one of the most important concerns. Honeypot is a security resource whose value lies in being probed or attacked. It can be used to wave off the security issues arising nowadays. Also one can obtain a considerable amount of information about the attacker and his attacking methodologies. This paper includes brief discussion about different types of honeypot technology based on the site of the attack namely client honeypots and server honeypots. The server honeypots enable us to understand the server side attacks whereas client honeypots enable us understand the client side attacks. During the research on honeypot technologies, main focus was on the analysis of Client honeypots as they considerably are more vulnerable to the attacks. We will be discussing different types of attacks on client honeypots and different approach to detect and tackle them. Keywords—honeypot, client honeypot, 0day attacks, detection, obfuscation, effectiveness, integration