These days it is possible to feel completely confident about hacker attacks as long as you have the most effective security in place. But what is the most effective security? How do hackers work? How can you feel completely confident?

Keep reading to find out..

First step to attack someones network is to gather information about that network, as much as you can. May it be technical or non-technical, for example where all branch offices are located? Who the target partners with? It can help you understand possible topology and technologies in place.

Technical information may contain IP addresses in use, services available, etc. More services running on servers means more entry points. More entry points make it easier to get access.

The more services running on servers means more points of entry for the hackers. For example, if you saw that server A only had port 21 open, but server B had 7 different ports open, then server B is the clear choice for entry because each open port is an entry point and you get full access if you can bypass the security to one port entry point, so the one with more options would be the clear choice.

But what if server B was just put there to catch your attention, distracting you from something valuable on the other server? You can install fakes servers with lots of open ports for hackers to attack to ensure the safety of your main valuable servers and as soon as they start attacking the decoy, you can analyse their attack plans and work to counter them. This is called the honey pot method.

A honey pot system is essentially, a trap set to lure hackers into a server that appears to be part of your main server system, but is in fact on its own, monitored and has been made to look like it contains valuable data but in fact contains nothing of any use to anyone.

A honeypot is valuable as a surveillance and early-warning tool. It can carry risks to a network, and must be handled with care. If they are not properly walled off, an attacker can use them to break into a system. Honeypots can be classified based on their deployment and based on their level of involvement. Based on the deployment, can be classified as

1. Production Honeypots 2. Research Honeypots

Production Honey Pots: These Honey Pots are used mainly by the bigger companies and corporations in order to increase their overall security. They are easy to use, and only capture a small amount of information which would be useless to a hacker.

Research Honey Pots: These are run by volunteers or an educational organisation to simply gather information about how hackers work, their motives and tactics in order to create better protection from them.

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