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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Honeypots and Honeytokens

Tuesday July 22, 2003
Lance Spitzner, one of the founders of The Honeynet Project and one of the key authors of Know Your Enemy, recently published a paper on SecurityFocus about the concept of honeytokens. Here is a short excerpt:

"A honeytoken is just like a honeypot, you put it out there and no one should interact with it. Any interaction with a honeytoken most likely represents unauthorized or malicious activity."

Click here to read the full article on SecurityFocus click here: Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot.

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