This Paper is written on the subject of honey pots. It will cover many aspects of a honey pot including, what are they, how they work, how to build a honey pot, several types of commercial honey pots, are they worth it, and some legal issues that are involved in using them.
Honey pots are one of the newest methods used in intrusion detection.
The decoy system should be set up in a similar manner to those of the production servers in the corporation and should be loaded with numerous fake files, directories, and other information that may look real. By making the honey pot appear to be a legitimate machine with legitimate files, it leads the hacker to believe that they have gained access to important information. With a little luck the intruder will stay around in an attempt to collect data while the honey pot collects information about the intruder and the source of his or her attack. Ideally honey pots provide an environment where intruders can be trapped or vulnerabilities accessed before an attack is made on real assets. Decoys are setup not to capture the bad guy but to monitor and learn from their moves, find how they probe and exploit the system and how those exploitations can be prevented in production systems and doing this all without detection from the hacker.