A Low-Cost Green IT Design and Application of VHSP Based on Virtualization Technology

Honeynet includes various Honeypot, thus it has managerial limitations in the flexibility, time limits, technological integrations and dynamic deployment. In addition, the S/W and H/W resource utilization is comparatively low, and meanwhile it also lacks for the effective application of strategic integration; therefore, there are still a lot of space should be improved. In this work, we proposed a Virtual Honeynet Security Platform (VHSP), we utilize the integration of the Xen paravirtualization and Honeynet technologies to design a virtual research platform and implement such platform to verify the effectiveness of the virtual architecture and method that designed in this paper. The main contribution of this work is not only reduces the complexity for the great deployment in traditional Honeynet system, but also decrease the limitation in spatial region for the physical Honeynet environment, and this conform to the concept of green IT.