A smart honeypot-deception or intrusion-detection software package
NETSEC, based in Switzerland, has released Specter 5.01 Intrusion Detection System software for Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Although NETSEC calls the software an intrusion-detection system, it's actually a honeypot-deception software package.
Features and Benefits
A honeypot is a system or piece of software that disguises itself as a potentially vulnerable system or a system entirely different from what you are running. Specter's first goal is to trick intruders into either giving up because they don’t know how to access the OS or to throw themselves at the system because they think it's more vulnerable than it is.
The software's second goal is to monitor scans against the system and act on them. Once Specter detects a scan, it logs the attack and fingers the attacking system, trying to glean information about the intruder's system. The fine line between Specter's activity and typical intrusion-detection software is that Specter won’t tell you if someone has broken through your system. . . .
