Definition: A honeypot is a computer system intended to attract or lure attackers to it. A honeypot serves to distract attackers from the real targets as a decoy as well as a means to track and monitor attacks to learn from them in order to develop better protection for the real systems.
Honeypot
From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com
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