Research and Design of Network Attack and Defense Platform Based on Virtual Honeynet

Abstract

Network attack and defense experiments have always been the important practices in courses of network security. As the Internet is not a target of network attack and defense in experiments, a virtual network environment for attack and defense is needed. In this paper, we propose a network attack and defense experimental platform based on the virtual honey net. Network attacker is formed by a number of hosts. Network defender is formed by the system of a virtual honey net. Using data capture and data control functions of the honey net, we can analyze the tools, methods, and techniques used by intruders.