Abstract: Honeypot is new concept used in the network security. Honeypot can detect the attack as well as the attacker’s information. Honeypot block out the access to the real system. Honeypot is physical system which acts as original server in the network to make client fool. Honeypot can used with IDS system to make network more secure. This paper consist the honeypot architecture which contains honey net. It also contains how honeypot works in the network for security purpose? Advantages, disadvantages of honeypot. This paper also consist all information about Honeypot and types of honeypot on level of interaction in the network.
Keywords: Honey pot, IDS, SQL injection attack, XSS attack, data leakage attack.