HoneyNet Project
The Honeynet Project is a leading international 501c3 non-profit security research organization, dedicated to investigating the latest attacks and developing open source security tools to improve Internet security. With Chapters around the world, our volunteers have contributed to fight again malware (such as Confickr), discovering new attacks and creating security tools used by businesses and government agencies all over the world. The organization continues to be on the cutting edge of security research by working to analyze the latest attacks and educating the public about threats to information systems across the world.
Founded in 1999, The Honeynet Project has contributed to fight against malware and malicious hacking attacks and has the leading security professional among members and alumni. Our mission reads "to learn the tools, tactics and motives involved in computer and network attacks, and share the lessons learned" with three main pillars:
Research
The Honeynet Project volunteers collaborate on security research efforts covering data analysis approaches, unique security tool development and gathering data about attackers and malicious software they use. We provide critical additional information, such as their motives in attacking, how they communicate, when they attack systems and their actions after compromising a system. We provide this service through our Know Your Enemy whitepapers, The Project blog posts and our Scan of the Month challenges.
Awareness
The Honeynet Project members engage the broader security community and educate the public about threats to systems and information. We raise awareness of the threats and vulnerabilities that exist on the Internet today. We provide this information so people can better understand they are a target, and understand the basic measures they can take to mitigate these threats as well as better handle advanced threats that slip through the defenses. This information is provided through our Know Your Enemy series of papers as well as The Honeynet Project blog and other media venues and public security workshops.
Tools
The Honeynet Project engages broader security community via Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and other efforts to expand security tool development. For organizations interested in continuing their own research about cyber threats, we provide the tools and techniques we have developed. Recent tools examples include Cuckoo, Capture-HPC, Glastopf, HoneyC, Honeyd, Honeywall. We provide these through our Tools Site. Key tools are also described in Know Your Tools papers and on The Project blog.
Vision Our vision for the Honeynet Project reads as follows: The Honeynet Project is a diverse, talented, and engaged group of international computer security experts who conduct open, cross disciplinary research and development into the evolving threat landscape. It cooperates with like-minded people and organizations in that endeavor.
Primary Contact Information 1425 Broadway #438 Seattle, WA, 98122-03854 United States Email: project@honeynet.org Twitter: @projecthoneynet
We are a 501c3 non-profit organization incorporated in Illinois. Our EIN is 36-4460128. Our tax status can be checked on the IRS web site.
Our Board Of Directors Julia Cheng - Jan, 2014 Tillmann Werner - Jan, 2014 Felix Leder - Jan, 2015 Kara Nance - Jan, 2015 Jose Nazario - Jan, 2016 David Watson - Jan, 2016 Sjur Usken - Jan, 2016
Our Officers Chief Executive Officer - Christian Seifert Chief Public Relations Officer - Leon van der Eijk Chief Ethics and Legal Officer - Dave Dittrich Chief Membership Officer -Max Kilger Treasurer - Mark Schloesser Chief Infrastructure Officer - Faiz Shuja Chief Research Officer - David Watson
Organizational Bylaws Full Members Alumni
Short Video Explaning Honeypots (Quicktime, 45MB)
About The Web Site
As some of you may have noticed, our website and RSS feed make use of the analytic services Google Analytics and FeedBurner. We use these services to help us ensure that our information is easily accessible and relevant to what you are looking for. We understand that some users prefer to have no information about them collected. To disable Google Analytics one can disable JavaScript or DNS blackhole the google-analytics.com domain name prior to visiting our website. To subscribe to our RSS feed without the FeedBurner service, we provide the direct links to the feeds here. They are http://www.honeynet.org/rss.xml for our main RSS feed and http://www.honeynet.org/feed/blogfeed for the feed that aggregates posts from our members.