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Re: Need your helping defining honeypots
From: George Bakos <gbakos () ists dartmouth edu>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 01:52:14 -0400
Props to Richard for the broadest, yet still concise, definition thus far. The only issue I see is the term "computer". This may further place limits on the type of resources that may be positioned to best observe illicit use. Is an optical switch, or a voicemail system a "computer resource?" Instrumenting and deploying either of these could certainly be referred to as honeypotting, no? Perhaps: "A honeypot is an information system resource the value of which lies in monitoring unauthorized or illicit use of that resource." Cheers, g On Fri, 16 May 2003 16:31:34 -0400 (EDT) "Richard.Salgado () usdoj gov" <Richard.Salgado () usdoj gov> wrote:
In my world, the essence of a honeypot is much closer to the second option than the first. It is a system used to monitor unauthorized or illicit activity. The definition needs to be broad enough to capture honeypots with a security-research goal as well as deployments aimed at other misuses of networks and data. (I think Lance would like to be sure that the definition covers honey tokens as well). Perhaps the we could combine the two definitions as follows: "A honeypot is a computer resource the value of which lies in monitoring unauthorized or illicit use of the resource."
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- RE: Need your helping defining honeypots Glenn_Everhart (May 16)
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- RE: Need your helping defining honeypots John McCracken (May 16)
- Re: Need your helping defining honeypots George W. Capehart (May 16)
- Re: Need your helping defining honeypots George Bakos (May 17)
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- RE: Need your helping defining honeypots John McCracken (May 16)
- FW: Need your helping defining honeypots Axel de Kimpe (May 16)
- Re: Need your helping defining honeypots Christian Kreibich (May 19)