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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
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
