• Energy Research

Honeypots have been largely employed to help securing computer systems and capture malicious activities. At present, virtual honeynets -network scenarios made of virtual honeypots- are frequently used to investigate the adversary’s behaviour. The static deploying scheme used traditionally, in which the configuration of the honeynet is determined by security experts beforehand, lacks the capability of dynamically adapting its configuration after deployment. In this paper, a new adaptive and flexible virtual honeynet management system is proposed that dynamically creates, configures and deploys both low-interaction and high-interaction honeypots, emulating multiple operating systems. The results and measurements of the experiments carried out illustrate that new virtual honeynet system is more capable than previous virtual honeynet architectures.