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Roaming Honeypots for Mitigating Service-Level Denial-of-Service Attacks

Overview Honeypots have been proposed to act as traps for malicious attackers. However, because of their deployment at fixed (thus detectable) locations and on machines other than the ones they are supposed to protect, honeypots can be avoided by sophisticated attacks. The paper proposes roaming honeypots, a mechanism that allows the locations of honeypots to be unpredictable, continuously changing, and disguised within a server pool. A (continuously changing) subset of the servers is active and providing service, while the rest of the server pool is idle and acting as honeypots. The paper utilizes the roaming honeypots scheme to mitigate the effects of service-level DoS attacks, in which many attack machines acquire service from a victim server at a high rate, against back-end servers of private services.

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Publisher: University of Pittsburgh
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Oct 14, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Denial of Service, Network Security, Security Management

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