Monday, August 29, 2005

Honey Monkey?

Okay, now I'm not a huge internet security expert but being in IT, for long enough gives you a basic understanding of what's out there. In any case I've been looking at a research project that works similar to a Honeypot; put a system out to be compromised so that you understand the vulnerability in a system or network. Well Microsoft has there own take on it which they call Honey Monkey , which in short acts like dummy user account that surfs possible malicious websites and tests whether or not they they infected with exploits. This is a very cool idea and its good to see that Microsoft is really getting serious about computer security. I personally can't wait to unleash a legion of random Honey Monkeys to see what happens but I think I'd be more entertained if there were actual monkeys playing with honey. In any case I'd like to thank the guys doing the podcast Security Now! for bring up this project and should you want more information TechWorld has an article on the project.

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