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Honeyd

Small daemon that creates virtual hosts and simulates services and OS personalities for network deception.

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A small open-source daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network, configurable to run arbitrary services and to mimic operating system personalities for realistic fingerprints. It helps simulate large numbers of systems from a single machine to support threat detection, assessment and deception, and is intended for network administrators, security researchers and security teams; source code and documentation are available under the GNU General Public License.

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network securityhoneypotintrusion detectionopen source software

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