tiered or tuned honeynets

[Max Kilger <MaxK () symresources com>]

Someone mentioned trying to find out more about the concept of tiered or
tuned honeynets.  Since I'm the one who coined the term "tuned honeynet"
I'll try to elucidate just a bit.

Tradionally when people have discussed creating honeynets with substantive
content they have focused on one particular, single theme - for example
putting up an ecommerce server with the honeynet to look for carders.  The
basic idea behind a tuned honeynet is to develop a honeynet or honeynets
where you create an ecosystem of different types of cascading,serially
discovered potential targets (ecommerce, technical database, email server,
server with military-related files) and by encouraging the attacker to
explore these differentially themed honeypots in a serial mode you can
attract/repel them into differentially motivated bins (e.g.honeypots)- sort
of like a sieve...

I'm purposedly being a bit vague here but you should get the general
principle...

Cheers,

Max Kilger, Ph.D.
Social Psychologist
Honeynet Project