This is one SERIOUS firewall.....

[Richard McCarthy]

While looking for a firewall to be used at home, I found this interesting piece....

 

http://www.specter.com

 

 

"SPECTER is a smart honeypot or deception system. It simulates a complete machine, providing an interesting target to lure hackers away from the production machines. SPECTER offers common Internet services such as SMTP, FTP, POP3, HTTP and TELNET which appear perfectly normal to the attackers but in fact are traps for them to mess around and leave traces without even knowing that they are connected to a decoy system which does none of the things it appears to do but instead logs everything and notifies the appropriate people. Furthermore, SPECTER automatically investigates the attackers while they are still trying to break in. SPECTER provides massive amounts of decoy content and it generates decoy programs that will leave hidden marks on the attacker's computer. Automated weekly online updates of the honeypot's content and vulnerability databases allow the honeypot to change constantly without user interaction."

 

...... at $899 ... it doesn't look like I will be getting it any time soon though

 

 

-RM

[garethace]

thanks