RE: "Honeynets" vs. "Honeypots"

["Andrew Hintz \(Drew\)" <drew () overt org>]

sounds right to me. (:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott - cb750c [mailto:cb750c () email com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: honeypots () securityfocus com
> Subject: "Honeynets" vs. "Honeypots"
>
>
> I have kind of a silly terminology question that I'd like to 
> clear up. What differentiates a honeynet vs. a honeypot? I'm 
> building a high-interaction GenI setup with only two machines, a 
> firewall and a honeypot. Is this a honeynet or not? In the 
> whitepaper I'm writing, I refer to the entire setup as a honeynet 
> (since this setup is not part of our production network) and 
> reserve the term honeypot for the machine which is intended to be 
> compromised. I want to make sure I'm being accurate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott