¶ … Honeypot and Honeynet Emerging Technologies In the present IT environment, individuals and businesses are becoming more dependent an open network that includes the Internet where business transactions, government services and commercial activities are realized. However, the use of open network has led to the development of new information security issues and cyber threats that are being utilized by the cyber criminals. Thus, a mistrust in computer network technologies and telecommunications can affect socio-economic of global enterprises, an increase in the complexity of network infrastructures and communication lead to an increased demand for a new approach to cybersecurity.

Essentially, the threats in the cyber security landscapes are continuously evolving. The reactive and traditional security measures are no more sufficient to protect cyber information infrastructures. Thus, honeypots are the new emerging technology tools focusing in the areas of network forensics and network security, which is effective in enhancing network security of an organization. Honeypots are the emerging information security resources that deliberately allow the computing resources to be compromised, and the attacks are analyzed to learn about the procedures, method, and tools that attackers use to inflict the information resources, and the strategy will assist in developing potent information security tools to counter the attackers in the future. The benefit of a honeypot is that it assists in enhancing a greater understanding of malicious activities in the cyberspace. However, honeynet composes of two or more honeypots being used at the same time.

The objective of this paper is to discuss the honeypot and honeynet tools, which a new emerging technology in the cyber security environment.

A. Method Honeypot Improve Cyber security

In a cybersecurity terminology, the honeypot is referred as computer and information security that assists in detecting and deflecting as well as counteracting an attempt of unauthorized users in the information resources. In other words, a honeypot is the data or network site that appears to be legitimate, however being isolated in order to monitor resources or the values of the attackers. The honeypot consists of a fake operating system with the intention to collect data about the intruders. The operating systems are set up in such a way to make it attractive to an attacker. Although, honeypot may appear vulnerable to an attacker, however, the strategy is to collect valuable information about the attack. The information collected will assist the system administrator to identify the intruders and their activities.

The work of the honeypot is similar to the work if police force baiting a criminal. (Sokol et al. (2017) argue that one of the main features of a honeypot is its ability to get as much information as possible...

For example, a high-interaction honeypot aims to allow an attacker getting access to the real operating systems to assist in collecting information about the nature of the attack. This type of honeypot can also be a research honeypot that aims to gain much information about the attacker such as black hat community, and allows the black hat to penetrate and infiltrate the security systems. The malware honeypots are the other security techniques used to detect malware through a replication process. Moreover, the database honeypot is by using the SQL database firewalls to support the honeypot architecture to make intruders running against the trapped database.
The honeypots consist of three core elements: The data control is used to log and monitor the activities of attackers with the aid of the honeynet technology. The honeypot also consists of data capture that controls the activities of the attacker. The data analysis assists in analyzing all the data collected to enhance a greater understanding of the nature of the vulnerability. The application of honeynets is similar to the honeypots in the sense that they are also the networks that intentional invite attackers to monitor the attackers' activities. The information collected assists in improving the network security. However, honeynets contain one or more honeypots to trap individuals who attempt to penetrate into corporate network systems.

B. Method an Organization can Honeypot Cyber security Technologies

Clark et al. (2014) argue that a honeypot is an effective tool that can be used as a deception tool against an imminent attack. For example, an attacker is bent on exploiting an organizational network with the hope of stealing sensitive information. A corporate organization can fool attackers in making them exfiltrating misleading or false information that looks similar to the corporate information systems. The strategy will make the attackers waste time when collecting the useless information. Thus, it is advisable for an organization to set up an honeypot or honeynet to divert the attention of an intruder from penetrating the real corporate network systems. However, it is critical to mention at this point that the honeypot should contain the useless data and should be kept separate from the corporate network systems. In the IT environment, it is essential for the network or system administrators to collect as much information as possible from an intruder to make them improve the corporate network systems. The best strategy to achieve this goal is to encourage an intruder to breach the security of the honeypots to learn about the viability of the corporate network systems.

One of the benefits of the honeypot is that it will assist an organization to understand the viability of their security systems against an imminent attack. To make honeypot more realistic, the system…