Honeypots

What is the purpose of a shadow honeypot?

• To flag attacks against known vulnerabilities

• To help reduce false positives in a signature-based IDS

• To randomly check suspicious traffic identified by an anomaly detection system

• To enhance the accuracy of a traditional honeypot

Which of the following is a fake network designed to tempt intruders with unpatched and unprotected security vulnerabilities and false data?

• IDS

• Honey pot

• Padded cell

• Vulnerability scanner

A honey pot is an example of what type of software?

• Intrusion-detection

• Virus

• Encryption

• Security-auditing

Into how many categories is honeypots classified based on interaction level?

• 4

• 2

• 3

• 5

Which of the following is not a type of honeypot?

• Spider

• Email

• Database

• Network

What are the types of honeypots based on purpose?

• Research honeypot

• Production honeypot

• Both A&B

• None of the above

Which of the following is advantage of using Honepots?

• Helps to improve your organization’s overall security.

• Puts your organization’s incident response capabilities to the test.

• Gives you greater visibility of attacks as they’re happening.

• All of the above

In order to help prevent spam, a honeypot performs which of the following functions?

• Acts as a desirable mail server in order to lure spammers

• Delivers suspected spam messages more slowly

• Traps suspected spam messages

• Routes suspected spam to special enclaves in the system

Which is not a disadvantage of honeypot?

• Puts your organization’s incident response capabilities to the test

• It may introduce additional risks into your environment

• It can only detect an intrusion when it is attacked directly

• A compromised honeypot that’s not isolated effectively may be used launch an attack on the real network

How are honeypots created?

• Uses a code-transformation tool

• Takes the input of original application source code

• It uses a code-transformation tool and takes the input of original application source code

• None of the above