Date of Award
6-2016
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Information Assurance: M.S.
Department
Information Assurance and Information Systems
College
Herberger School of Business
First Advisor
Amos O. Olagunju
Second Advisor
Ezzat Kirmani
Third Advisor
Jerry Wellik
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Honeypot
Abstract
A honeypot is a deception tool, designed to entice an attacker to compromise the electronic information systems of an organization. If deployed correctly, a honeypot can serve as an early-warning and an advanced security surveillance tool. It can be used to minimize the risks of attacks on IT systems and networks. Honeypots can also be used to analyze the ways attackers try to compromise an information system and to provide valuable insights into potential system loopholes. This research investigated the effectiveness of the existing methodologies that used honeynet to detect and prevent attacks. The study used centralized system management technologies called Puppet and Virtual Machines to implement automated honeypot solutions. A centralized logging system was used to collect information about the source IP address, country, and timestamp of attackers. The unique contributions of this thesis include: The research results show how open source technologies is used to dynamically add or modify hacking incidences in a high-interaction honeynet system; the thesis outlines strategies for making honeypots more attractive for hackers to spend more time to provide hacking evidence.
Recommended Citation
Samu, Farouk, "Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Honeypot System for the Detection and Prevention of Systems Attacks" (2016). Culminating Projects in Information Assurance. 9.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/msia_etds/9
