Autonomous hybrid honeypot as the future of distributed computer systems security

Abstract

Computer security presents one of the fastest-evolving segments in the Information Technologies (IT) area. The traditional system security approach is slightly focused on defence but more attention has been drawn to aggressive forms of defence against potential attackers and intruders. The advanced decoy based technology called Honeypot is a similar form of protection against intrusion. The paper is focused mainly on the proposal of the autonomous hybrid Honeypot and its features in cooperation with the Intrusion Detection System (IDS). The weakness of the detection mechanism is a major IDS shortcoming that can be minimized by using the hybrid Honeypot technology. The proposed architecture can be used as a solution for a rapid increase a security with the autonomous behaviour model in a distributed computer system.