Honeypots: Tracking Hackers

Lance Spitzner, lead author of the popular security book, Know Your Enemy, explores exciting new security technologies called Honeypots

• The first book to examine what honeypots are, how they work, and all the different types
• Provides examples of real world deployments
• Coverage of the legal issues surrounding the use of honeypots, one of the most controversial aspects of honeypot security
• CD includes white papers, source code, and actual evaluation copies of software.

Technology:

Honeypots are highly sophisticated technologies used to observe and learn about hackers. Practical and commercial interest in these new forms of hacker defense is now hitting the mainstream. There are many successful commercial honeypots, including ManTrap and Specter.

Audience:

Anyone who purchased Know Your Enemy, security administrators, researchers, law enforcement, and the intelligence community will be interested in this book.

User level:

Beginner to Intermediate.

Lance Spitzner is an acknowledged leader in the security field, and the undisputed expert in honeypot technology. He is the moderator of the honeypots maillist, developer and instructor of the SANS honeypot course, and founder of The Honeynet Project. He has presented on honeypot technologies at the Pentagon, FBI Academy, National Security Administration, SANS, Usenix, and Blackhat. Spitzner is also a Senior Security Architect for Sun Microsystems, Inc.