Design and Development of Honeypot for Proactive Monitoring of Campus Network

Abstract

Honeypots are closely monitored decoys that are employed in a network to study the rail of hackers and to alert network administrators of a possible intrusion. Honeypots are a relatively new technique for achieving network security. In this thesis a new honeypot is developed using Honeyd and other opensource technologies. In the process a way to overcome the OS fingerprint mismatch is shown and arpd program is patched to allow it to send unicast ARP replies and to send replies faster.