How to build a honeypot

A Honeypot is a closely monitored computing resource in your network which is intended to be compromised. It allows for in-depth examination of conducted exploits and provides early-warning about new attack trends.

This post shows how to install a Cowrie honeypot together with elasticsearch and kibana for logging ans visualization. Cowrie is a medium to high interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.