Honeypots

Static Honeypots 135

Similarly, the fi ctitious people and locations one creates will

need fi ctitious salaries, budgets, personnel records, personal

problems, and phone numbers with people to answer them, and

so on. The best move is to remove the intelligence information

in places like the DNS system so as to mitigate the intelligence

threat at low cost while also reducing the value of these

services for other forms of intelligence. A negative side effect

of this is that it has an impact on network maintenance and

thus a method has to be devised to allow authorized people to

access this information under appropriate circumstances and

with some sort of detection of attempts to abuse this access. Of

course this extends the number of people who ...