Honeypots: Tracking Hackers

In this text, the author of Know Your Enemy explores state-of-the-art security technologies called Honeypots. It provides examples of real world deployments and coverage of the legal issues surrounding the use of honeypots. The CD includes white papers, source code and evaluation software.

Lance Spitzner is a senior security architect for Sun Microsystems, Inc., and an acknowledged authority in security and honeypot research. He is a developer, the moderator of the honeypots mailing list, and an instructor for the SANS honeypot course. He is also the founder of the Honeynet Project, a nonprofit group of thirty security professionals dedicated to Honeynet research and learning the tools, tactics, and motives of blackhats and sharing their lessons learned. Lance has presented data on honeypot technologies to organizations such as the Pentagon, the FBI Academy, the Naval War College, the National Security Agency, West Point, SANS, CanSecWest, and Black Hat Briefings.

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