Analyzing Network Security from a Defense in Depth Perspective

Abstract

With the rapid increase of technology throughout the world, there has also been an equally rapid increases in its abuse. Currently, security professional made some attempts to learn about attacker, however these attempts were limited in effort and scope. They emphasis on the targeted vulnerability and how the exploit took advantage of that vulnerability. However, very little attention was focused on the attackers themselves. IT is necessary to study the black-hat community’s tools, tactics, and motive and then sharing any lessons learned. The more you know about your enemies, the better chance you have of defending yourself against them and defeating them. A honeynet is a network set up with intentional vulnerabilities; its purpose is to invite attack, so that an attacker’s activities and methods can be studied and that information used to increase network security. This paper will collect and analyse the attackers activity, through the honeynet network and normal secured system and it will identify if there is new attackers activities, that are not detected by the current security tool are detected.