There are some repercussions that should be noted as well. If you intentionally lure intruders to a honey pot it may be seen as an open invitation, even permission for intruders to access the decoy system, therefore you should have the same minimum security restrictions on your honey pot as on your production servers. After access to a honey pot is gained, it can be used as a stepping-stone to compromise other systems. Honey pots should generally be used as defensive detection tools, not an offensive approach to luring intruders. In order to answer the above question you must first ask yourself a few other questions.
Honey pots are highly useful if the time and resources are available.
They are highly educational as far as learning about your corporation's vulnerabilities and for seeing into hacker's tools and tricks used to compromise systems. If the resources can be had a honey pot is a great addition to any intrusion detection setup. Bibliography Hartley, Bruce.