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An Introduction First Ever Public Honeynet Project Security Workshop. 21 st of March 2011 Christian Seifert, CEO. Who is the Honeynet Project?. The Honeynet Project is an non-profit computer security research organization Founded in 2000 by Lance Spitzner
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An Introduction First Ever Public Honeynet Project Security Workshop 21st of March 2011 Christian Seifert, CEO
Who is the Honeynet Project? • The Honeynet Project is an non-profit computer security research organization • Founded in 2000 by Lance Spitzner • Global membership of volunteers with diverse skills and experiences • Partially funded by sponsors • We are not selling our products or services! All we produce is open source and freely available. • Mission: ¨learn the tools, tactics and motives involved in computer and network attacks, and share the lessons learned¨ • Goal: Improve security of the Internet • The Honeynet Project is a platform that brings together security researchers and likeminded people to accomplish this goal.
Structure Board of Directors Julia Cheng, Taiwan Information Security Center at National Cheng Kung University Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks Lance Spitzner, SANS Institute Christian Seifert, Microsoft Bing David Watson, Isotoma Ltd. Tillmann Werner, Kaspersky Labs Anton Chuvakin, CPRO, Security Warrior Consulting Dave Dittrich, CLEO, University of Washington Max Kilger, CMO, Experian Simmons Christian Seifert, CEO, Microsoft Bing FaizShuja, CIO, Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd SebastienTricaud, CTO, Picviz Labs David Watson, CRO, Isotoma Ltd. appoint elect form Committees Officers Chapters Full Members Contributors
40 International Chapters 150 contributors 53 full members
What do we do? • Awareness: Raise awareness of the threats that exist • Honeynet Project Blog/ Twitter feed/ Social Media Groups • KYE whitepaper series • Google Summer of Code
What do we do? • Information: For those already aware, teach and inform about latest threats • Speaking engagements at conferences/ workshops and at invitation-only events • Public Honeynet Project Security Workshop • Forensic Challenges • Capture-the-flag events
What do we do? • Research: Give organizations the capabilities to learn more on their own • Develop and deploy honeypot and security technology • Release developed tools under open source license freely on the web • Study captured data in the wild with sensors around the world
Where are we? • Contact of follow us: • Blog at http://www.honeynet.org • An official Project Twitter feed @projecthoneynet • Facebook group 'The Honeynet Project' • LinkedIn group 'The Honeynet Project' • “Old school” public mailing list, still at SecurityFocus • #honeynet-project on irc.freenode.net (new, general public enquiries)