Honeypots: Deployment and Data Forensic Analysis

Information security is a growing concern today for organizations and individuals alike. This has led to growing interest in more aggressive forms of defense to supplement the existing methods. One of these methods involves the use of honeypots. A honeypot is a security resource whose value lies in being probed, attacked or compromised. In this paper we have deployed various honeypots under different environment and a forensic analysis of the data collected have been done. We have summarized the various results obtained in the experiment and given the possible measures that can be taken to use honeypot as a valuable tool.