An overview of The Honeynet Project to Taiwan Audience.

1. Honeynet Project Overview
Julia Cheng
Director, Honeynet Board of Directors
Julia.yc.cheng@gmail.com

2. Who is the Honeynet Project?
• US-based non-profit (501c3) computer
security research organization
• Founded in 2000 by Lance Spitzner
• Global membership of volunteers with
diverse skills and experiences

3. Who is the Honeynet Project?
(Cont.)
• Partially funded by sponsors
• We are not selling our products or service
• All we produce is open source and freely
available.

4. Who is the Honeynet Project?
(Cont.)
• 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.

5. Contributors
Structure
Chapters
Full Members
43 International Chapters
187 Contributor
55 Full Members

6. Contributors
Structure
Board of
Directors
Chapters
Full Members
elect
Committees
Julia Cheng, 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

7. Contributors
Structure
Board of
Directors
Officers
Chapters
Full
Members
elect appoint
Committees
Guillaume Arcas, CPRO, Security Warrior
Consulting
Dave Dittrich, CLEO, University of Washington
Max Kilger, CMO, Experian Simmons
Christian Seifert, CEO, Microsoft Bing
Faiz Shuja, CIO, Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd
Sebastien Tricaud, CTO, Picviz Labs
David Watson, CRO, Isotoma Ltd.

8. Contributors
Structure
Board of
Directors
Officers
Chapters
Full Members
elect appoint
Committeesform

9. What do we do? Awareness
• Raise awareness of the threats that exist
• Honeynet Project Blog/ Twitter feed/ Social
Media Groups
• KYE/KYT whitepaper series
• Google Summer of Code

10. http://www.honeynet.org/papers

11. Google Summer of Code
all for the love of code
• Global program that
offers student
developers stipends to
write code for various
open source software
projects

12. Google Summer of Code
all for the love of code
http://www.honeynet.org/gsoc/slots

13. 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

16. Annual Workshop (Paris 2011)

17. http://www.honeynet.org/challenges

18. 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

19. http://www.honeynet.org/project

20. Recently Research &
Activities
• Hpfeed: Live data feed sharing within the
Honeynet Project and also with external
parties.
• Data visualization on big data and diverse
sources of data
• Android malware static and dynamic analysis
• Low-interaction client honeypot

21. 2012 The Honeynet Project
Security Workshop
@ Facebook Headquarters
2012/03/19 ~ 2012/03/20
San Francisco, CA USA

22. How to Get Involved ?
• Open to anyone
• University students and professors, professionals,
enthusiastic individuals
• Become involved
• Find a local chapter (E.g. Taiwan Honeynet Chapter)
• Contact organization directly, become affiliated
• For students: GSoC – http://code.google.com/soc/

23. 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)

24. Q & A
Julia Cheng
Director, Honeynet Board of Directors