A Lightweight Honeynet Design In the Internet of Things
Xiaoyu Du, Guanying Zhou, Yujing Wang, Song Tao · 2022
With the wide use of Internet of Things(IoT) devices, security problems follow. To defend and analyze the security threats of IoT, honeypot and honeynet play an increasingly important role. Existing Honeynet management methods are not suitable for the management of simple IoT due to the high cost and complicated construction environment. This paper proposes a lightweight IoT Honeynet based on the MQTT. It manages the honeypot devices in the IoT network through a custom protocol. At the same time, the number of honeypots can be dynamically adjusted according to the current attacked state of the IoT network to save its resources, and the logs of the honeypots can also be collected by the honeynet as an important basis for analyzing hacker attacks. Finally, the experimental result proved the effectiveness of the proposed framework.