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Tool aims to help enterprise IT manage 'honeypot' hacker decoys |
June 20, 2014
A new tool called the Modern Honey Network (MHN) aims to make deploying and managing large numbers of honeypots easier so that enterprises can adopt such systems as part of their active defense strategies.Honeypots are systems that are intentionally left vulnerable to a variety of attacks in order to attract hackers and monitor their tools, techniques and intentions. They were once almost exclusively used by security vendors, researchers and computer emergency response teams, but have increasingly become an important source of threat intelligence for businesses in recent years.There are many honeypot software packages available and most of them are free to use and open source. However installing, configuring and monitoring honeypots remains a somewhat complicated process that requires specialized knowledge.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2366280/tool-aims-to-help-enterprise-it-manage-honeypot-hacker-decoys.html#tk.rss_all
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