Summary

Maintaining your honeypot deployments is critical to their success. You can deploy the greatest honeypot solutions ever, but they will be worthless if you do not do anything with them. To effectively sustain your honeypot deployments, you must develop effective policies and practices for alert detection, reaction, and data analysis. You also must keep your honeypots up to date.

The next chapter brings together all the information from previous chapters and helps you put it into practice. We will see two hypothetical organizations analyze their honeypot needs and determine what honeypot technologies and practices are best for them.

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