Philippine Honeynet Project is welcomed into the Honeynet Project Research Alliance
Congratulations to the Philippine Honeynet Project for making it into the Honeynet Project Research Alliance! I would particularly like to than Ryan and Carlo for all the hard work they have put into the project.
Here is a snippet on this from Inq7.net:
THE PHILIPPINES is the latest country to be accepted in a global alliance of “Honeynet” projects in Internet security research.
“The Honeynet Project is extremely excited to have the Philippines in the Research Alliance. Their hard work and contributions will greatly contribute to the security of both the Philippines and the Internet,” e-mailed Lance Spitzner, president of the Honeynet Project Research Alliance in a statement.
The Philippine Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer group dedicated to conducting Internet security research.
It was founded a year ago by Filipinos - Mida Guillermo, John Ruero, William Yu, Dr. John Paul Vergara, Carlo Monteverde, and Ryan Talabis who serves as lead analyst. They have worked to raise awareness on security issues, and to educate and conduct research on security threats since founding.
The Philippine Honeynet Project generated its first official report on September 2005. It’s first claim to fame was when it detected the first stirings of the Dasher worm in December 2005 and was quoted by Symantec.
So what is a honeynet?
“Honeynet” is also defined as a research tool consisting of a network specifically designed to prevent being compromised, with control mechanisms protecting the network from being used as a base for launching attacks against other networks — a kind of cyber “no-fire zone.” Once compromised, the Honeynet can be used to observe intruders’ activities, collect tools, and determine new trends in network attacks.
Honeynet is also likened to a virtual fishbowl for observing hacker activity. Just like a fishbowl, you create an environment whose interiors you can watch. Instead of sand and coral, Honeynets have different operating systems, varied flavors of databases, and whatever other cyber applications they would like to study.
So where do we go next? Well, the plan is to get as many collection points as possible. This way we can monitor many part of the Philippine Internet for suspicious network activity. Also, these collectors can serve as a future testbed for other IP engineering-related experiments such as usage profiling.
This is an old article that has been sleeping in my WP drafts for quite sometime. Oops.
