You Attract More Flies with Honey

Ah the sweet sweet taste of honey! Who knew that something so sticky and messy could taste so sweet! For as long as I can remember, Winnie the Pooh has been chasing down honey his whole life. It seems like almost every episode of the show, Winnie the Pooh was on a constant chase for that sweet liquid gold (not to be confused with Velveeta). Winnie the pooh would do anything to get his hands on those honeypots. The same could be said for hackers today. They will stop at nothing to get their hands on something sweet and delicious. Whether that is personal information, business information, or even large amounts of money. One way we can protect ourselves from hackers is to trick them into thinking they are getting honey, when in fact they are not getting any honey at all. The honeypot concept is basically like reverse hacking, you deploy a decoy system on your network (typically in the DMZ) that will bait a hacker into thinking that they are onto something, but in fact they have fallen for your trap! These honeypots can then be used to log information about how the hacker is trying to infiltrate your network. In order to protect ourselves from hackers, we need to think and react like hackers. By deploying a honeypot, we can learn from hackers and better defend our real gold sources, or our real pots of honey!

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