Honeypot and scan detection in intrusion detection system

We present an application of a honeypot in detection collaboration with an intrusion detection system. We have designed and implemented a honeypot port-scan detection system for scan detection, which can work as a module of the intrusion detection system and can also run independently. Nowadays, intrusion detection systems face more challenges, such as data overload, high false positives and negatives, and being incapable of understanding the encrypted or IPv6 packets. We introduce new data structures (such as a new link structure for slow scan) and new event mechanisms in our system, and present a new method to solve some weaknesses in known techniques, so our system can provide an early scan warning and detect some new attacks. Our tests on this system in a typical network environment show that the system has very low false positives and false negatives.