Tweet This post builds on the What is HPSS? Series. Previous posts are here and here. HoneyPoint Agent is the original detection capability of the HoneyPoint Security Server suite. Basically, it allows a system to offer up a variety of “fake … Continue reading
Tweet Just a quick reminder to all HoneyPoint Security Server users that Console 3.52 is now available on the distribution site. Access information for the distribution site is in the Quick Start Guide that you received when you first downloaded … Continue reading
Tweet Launched in 2006, initially as a distributed honey pot product, HoneyPoint Security Server (HPSS) has grown well beyond the initial concept. Today HPSS is a platform of components woven into a tightly integrated, fully capable, extremely flexible threat detection … Continue reading
Tweet HoneyPoint has a component called a HoneyBee that can help organizations detect sniffing on their networks. The tool works like this: HoneyBees are configured to talk to HoneyPoint Agents with a set of known credentials for an Agent emulated … Continue reading
Tweet One of the best uses of HoneyPoint is using it to test your assumptions, model risk or otherwise perform experimentation. If your management team would benefit from understanding how quickly a new web application will be targeted and attacked … Continue reading
Tweet MicroSolved, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have received a U.S. Patent (8,196,204 B2) on June 5, 2012, on technology components of their product HoneyPoint Security Server. This technology, known as “defensive fuzzing,” and the improvement mechanisms associated … Continue reading
Tweet Just got an interesting report in from another client helped by HoneyPoint Agent. This time, the client detected a probe against a SQLServer port that seemed to be coming from several hosts on their internal network. The probe … Continue reading
Tweet One of the least understood parts of MicroSolved is how the HoneyPoint Internet Threat Monitoring Environment (#HITME) data is used to better protect our customers. If you don’t know about the #HITME, it is a set of deployed HoneyPoints … Continue reading
Tweet I wanted to share some great feedback we received this week from a couple of sources. Both are regarding HoneyPoint — our product for creating a platform of nuance detection and visibility. The first came from a critical infrastructure … Continue reading
Tweet I had an interesting conversation this week over email with a security admin still fighting Conficker. If you haven’t recalled Conficker in a while, take a moment and read the wikipedia entry here: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker). Back in 2008, this nasty bugger … Continue reading