Transcript An Introduction First Ever Public Honeynet Project Security Workshop 21st of March 2011 Christian Seifert, CEO.

An Introduction
First Ever Public Honeynet Project Security Workshop
21st of March 2011
Christian Seifert, CEO
Who is the Honeynet Project?
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The Honeynet Project is an non-profit computer security research
organization
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Founded in 2000 by Lance Spitzner
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Global membership of volunteers with diverse skills and experiences
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Partially funded by sponsors
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We are not selling our products or services! All we produce is open
source and freely available.
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Mission: ¨learn the tools, tactics and motives involved in computer and
network attacks, and share the lessons learned¨
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Goal: Improve security of the Internet
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The Honeynet Project is a platform that brings together security
researchers and likeminded people to accomplish this goal.
Structure
Board of
JuliaCPRO,
Cheng,Security
Taiwan Warrior
Information
Security
AntonDirectors
Chuvakin,
Consulting
elect
National Cheng
Kung
Dave Dittrich,Center
CLEO,atUniversity
of Washington
appoint
University
Max Kilger, CMO,
Experian Simmons
Thorsten
Ruhr-University
Bochum
form
Christian Seifert,
CEO,Holz,
Microsoft
Bing
Committees
Officers
Jose
Nazario,
Arbor
Networks
Faiz Shuja, CIO, Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd
LanceCTO,
Spitzner,
SANS
Sebastien Tricaud,
Picviz
LabsInstitute
Christian
Seifert, Ltd.
Microsoft Bing
David Watson,
CRO, Isotoma
David Watson, Isotoma Ltd.
Chapters
Tillmann Werner, Kaspersky Labs
Full Members
Contributors
40 International Chapters
150 contributors
53 full members
What do we do?
Awareness: Raise awareness of the threats
that exist
• Honeynet Project Blog/ Twitter feed/
Social Media Groups
• KYE whitepaper series
• Google Summer of Code
What do we do?
Information: For those already aware, teach
and inform about latest threats
• Speaking engagements at conferences/
workshops and at invitation-only events
• Public Honeynet Project Security
Workshop 
• Forensic Challenges
• Capture-the-flag events
What do we do?
• Research: Give organizations the
capabilities to learn more on their own
• Develop and deploy honeypot and security
technology
• Release developed tools under open
source license freely on the web
• Study captured data in the wild with
sensors around the world
Where are we?
Contact of follow us:
• Blog at http://www.honeynet.org
• An official Project Twitter feed @projecthoneynet
• Facebook group 'The Honeynet Project'
• LinkedIn group 'The Honeynet Project'
• “Old school” public mailing list, still at SecurityFocus
• #honeynet-project on irc.freenode.net (new, general public
enquiries)