Honeypots

Preface

Security has received much focus and attention since the past

decade. Any threat to the network security can lead to heavy

fi nancial, economic and other loses. So, protection of network

against security threats has become a crucial prerequisite for any

organization. Since architecture of the Internet was designed with

an aim to provide maximum functionality, it has some inherent

weaknesses and incapability which result in successful origin

and execution of attacks. Internet failures can be accidental or

intentional. The design of Internet has been made to an extent of

controlling accidental failures. But intentional attack by malicious ...