Citation: Yanet Manzano. "Honeytraps: Design, and Functionalities." Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Expo 2002 (Poster Presentation Abstract), hosted by Florida State University, Tallahassee Community College and Florida A&M, Tallahassee, Florida, February 2002

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"Honeytraps: Design, and Functionalities"

      For years, computer and network security experts, also known as Whitehats, have fought to stay ahead of computer criminals, AKA blackhats. As blackhats become more skilled and computers become more powerful, conventional security measures become less effective. As a result, whitehats are force to constantly develop technology to retaliate. Deception technology is well-known in the security practitioner arena. The related concepts of deception security, are best represented by honeytraps. Honeytraps are systems designed to be compromised. They have no real valuable data or information. Initially, their main goal was to capture and analyze data in order to learn about the blackhat community. However, over the years, its use expanded making it a very valuable tool for whitehats. Our research in this area took us into the design, and functional details of honeytraps, as well as allowing us to survey its current uses.

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