- Lab
- Security
Active Defense: Honeypots
In this lab, you’ll practice monitoring your systems for cyber threats using a honeypot. When you’re finished, you’ll have experience deploying and utilizing honeypots on your network.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Running Your Honeypot
In this challenge you will get experience configuring and starting your honeypot of choice.
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Launching Cyber Attacks
In this challenge you will attack your honeypot from an outside machine to test its detection capabilities.
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Reviewing Detected Activity
In this challenge you will review the Logs/History recorded by the honeypot to see what types of attacks have been detected.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.