Honeynet Project Researchers Build Publicly Available ICS Honeynet

msm1267 writes "Conpot, short for Control Honeypot, is one of the first publicly available honeypots for industrial control systems (ICS) and SCADA gear. Built by two researchers from the Honeynet Project, the hope is that others will take what they started, deploy it on their own critical infrastructure networks and share the findings. 'The main goal is to make this kind of technology available for a general audience,' said Lukas Rist, one of the developers. 'Not just for security researchers, but also for people who are sysadmins setting up ICS systems who have no clue what could happen and want to see malware attacks against their systems and not put them in any danger.'" Unlike previous ICS Honeypots, this one simulates the control systems rather than requiring that you happen to own an actual industrial control system.

Comments

catch22

[Pedestrianwolf]

Seems like a bit of a catch 22... on one hand the people that own these systems need a reliable and safe way to understand and hopefully mitigate threats... on the other hand, it wasn't too long ago people were bemoaning flight simulators as "terrorism trainers".

Re:catch22

[Dishevel]

Your liberal roots are showing.
Politicians are for the most part "FOR" what will get them elected.
Being an idiot about wanting to restrict stuff is not a conservative only area of expertise.

Gun control ????

or ... Even better.

Anyone here remember Tipper Gore?
 

Re:ICS ? Ice Cream Sandwich ?

[fufufang]

It's so old school.

I think Industrial Control System came before Ice Cream Sandwich...