# A Highly Interactive Honeypot-Based Approach to Network Threat Management
## 4 Implementation and Results Analysis of High Interactivity Honeypot System  
A honeypot is a specialized system designed to attract attackers by simulating a real system and intentionally containing a significant number of vulnerabilities. The primary objective of a honeypot is to entice attackers to engage with the system, allowing security professionals to observe and analyze their behavior in order to enhance security measures for the real system. The log records left by various security devices or attackers can be analyzed to restore the entire attack path of the attacker and the attack load used by the attacker, and the honeypot plays two important roles in this process. One is it is to induce the attacker to attack a false and non-production system, which consumes a lot of time and experience of the attacker and reduces the threat to the actual system. Another benefit of deploying a honeypot is that it can aid security personnel in tracing back to the attacker through intrusion analysis. By collecting attack evidence, security professionals can use the information to pursue legal action against the attacker. Additionally, by analyzing attack data, defenders can identify characteristics of the attack before it occurs and use this information to address vulnerabilities in advance. Honeypots can be roughly divided into three types according to their degree of interaction: low-interaction honeypots, medium-interaction honeypots, and high-interaction honeypots. Among them, low-interaction honeypots and medium-interaction honeypots only provide fake services to collect attacker information. A low-interaction honeypot is designed to limit the interaction between a hacker and the system, minimizing the opportunity for a black hat to invade the system. Due to its limited functionality, the attacker's interaction with the system is brief and restricted, reducing the risk of harm to the honeypot and the network it is designed to protect. This type of honeypot can greatly protect itself from intruders. However, such honeypots get little information about hackers. Therefore, this approach is widely used by companies that care about protecting their systems from the Internet [13]. The highly interactive honeypot provides the real system or operating environment and records the operating records of the system. In contrast, highly interactive honeypot systems are more stealthy and more difficult to deploy. In a high-interaction honeypot, the main focus is to obtain maximum information about the hacker, allowing them to access the entire system and even tamper with it [13]. The highly interactive honeypot network implemented by this system needs to achieve honeypot interaction, security patches, risk convergence, full logs, high forgery degree, self-protection, version selection, and other characteristics in common scenarios [14]. In order to make the highly interactive honeypot of this system meet the above requirements, the design starts from the overall structure of the system and then analyzes and designs the realization of the honeynet central node and the highly interactive honeypot, respectively. Finally, based on the system design, the current high-interaction honeypot system is tested and analyzed. The comparison is shown in Table 1 below.  
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**Interaction Level** &
\begin{tabular}{c} **Installation** \\ **Configuration** \\ \end{tabular} & **Deployment Maintain** & **Information Collected** & **Risk Level** \\ \hline Low & Simple & Simple & Limited & Low \\ \hline Medium & Involved & Involved & Variables & Medium \\ \hline High & Difficult & Difficult & Rich & High \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Comparison of interactive honeypots.