Honeypots, used to detect cyber attacks, have been around information security for a long time.

The non-profit Honeynet Project is dedicated to investigating the latest attacks and working to improve the utility of honeypots in today's changing network environment.

In this podcast Vic Wheatman speaks with Gartner VP of Research Dr. Anton Chuvakin about this sticky issue. They look at the benefits of Low-interaction honeypots, which simulate only the services frequently requested by attackers, versus High-interaction honeypots that imitate the activities of the production systems that host a variety of services, and, therefore, an attacker may be allowed a lot of services to waste time.