Summary

This wraps up our discussion of honeypots, network-based methods of deceiving and delaying an attacker, and sending alerts to the defender as the attacks progress. You should have a good understanding of each of the main types of honeypots, where you might best deploy each to attain your goals as a defender, how to build honeypots, and how to secure them. I hope you have a good grasp of the advantages of these approaches, and plan to deploy at least a few of them in your network!

This is also the last chapter in this book, so congratulations on your perseverance! We've discussed deploying Linux in all kinds of ways in a data center, with a focus on how these approaches can help a network professional. In each section, we've tried to cover how to secure each service, or the security implications of deploying that service – often both. I hope this book has illustrated the advantages of using Linux for some or all of these uses in your own network, and that...