Honeypots are decoy system that are placed in infrastructure to attract and deflect attackers. Honeypots simulate and look like real system having applications and services running on it with vulnerabilities intentionally being kept open which makes it as a trap and lures the attackers towards it.
Honeynet is collections of Honeypots.
Types of Honeypots
Production Honeypots are honeypots used in production environment to deflect attackers from ligitimate systems.
Research Honeypots are honeypots used for research to understand threact actors and cyber security attacks.
Honeypot deployment types
Low-Interaction Honeypots are honeypots that simulate limited services.
Medium-Interaction Honeypots are honeypots that simulate real operating systems, application and services.
High-Interaction Honeypots are honeypots that emulate real application and services of an organization.
Pure Honeypots are honeypots that emulate real production infrastructure compromising of systems, network, application and services of an organization.
Types of Honeypots based in technology
Malware Honeypots – Attracts malwares like virus, worms, trojan horse.
Email Honeypots – Attracts malicious and suspicious emails.
Spider Honeypots – Attracks web crawlers.
Database Honeypots – Attracts database attacks like SQL injects