honey pot

• Install the operating system without patches installed and using typical defaults and options
• Make sure that there is no data on the system that cannot safely be destroyed
• Add the application that is designed to record the activities of the invader

Maintaining a honey pot is said to require a considerable amount of attention and may offer as its highest value nothing more than a learning experience (that is, you may not catch any hackers).

Read more about honey pot: - The SANS Institute offers an article called "Honey Pots and Honey Nets - Security through Deception." - SearchSecurity offers several valuable resources related to honey pots. - An article in USA Today describes how "Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes."

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