Colby DeRodeff Chief Technology Officer Modern Honey Network (MHN) Open Source Honeynet Management Platform Jason Trost @jason_trost jason.trost [AT] threatstream [DOT] com
Dec 02, 2014
Colby DeRodeffChief Technology Officer
Modern Honey Network (MHN)Open Source Honeynet Management Platform
Jason Trost@jason_trost
jason.trost [AT] threatstream [DOT] com
Who am I
• Jason Trost (@jason_trost)
• Director of ThreatStream Labs
• Formerly at Endgame, Booz Allen, Dept. of Defense, Sandia Nat’l Labs
• Background in Big Data Security Analytics
• Big advocate of open source and open source contributor
– Binary Pig – framework for large-scale static analysis using Hadoop
– Apache Accumulo – Pig integration, Python integration, Analytics
– Apache Storm
– Elasticsearch plugins
– Honeynet Project
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ThreatStream
• Cyber Security company founded in 2013 and venture backed by Google Ventures and Paladin Capital Group.
• SaaS based enterprise security software that provides actionable threat intelligence to large enterprises and government agencies.
• Our customers hail from the financial services, retail, energy, and technology sectors.
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Agenda
• Background
• The Problem
• What is MHN
• MHN Architecture
• Demo
• Wrap-up
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Background
• Honeypots can be very useful
– Esp. if deployed behind your firewall
– Catch internal scanning hosts
– Early warning system
• Honeypot and network sensor data is useful, esp. at scale
– Threat feeds
– Reputation engine
– Attack trends
– Is this IP only attacking me? Or others?
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The Problem
• Deploying/Managing Honeypots is difficult
• These activities are harder than they should be:
– Installing Honeypot packages
– Managing Honeypot sensors
– Setting up data flows
– Analyzing the collected data
• Because of this, honeypots are not used as much as they could be in production
• We hope to change that
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What is MHN
• Modern Honey Network
• Open source platform for managing honeypots, collecting and analyzing their data
• Makes it very easy to deploy new honeypots and get data flowing
• Leverages some existing open source tools
– hpfeeds
– nmemosyne
– honeymap
– MongoDB
– Dionaea, Conpot, Snort, Kippo
– Glastopf, Amun, and Wordpot
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Honeypot Management
• MHN Automates management tasks
• Deploying new honeypots
• Setting up data flows using hpfeeds
• Store and index the resulting data
• Correlate with IP Geo data
• Real-time visualization
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Architecture
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Mnemosyne
Webapp
REST API
honeymap
MHN
3rd party apps
snort conpot dionaea
snort conpot dionaea
snort conpot dionaea
Sensors
hpfeeds
Kippo
Kippo
Kippo
Glastopf
Glastopf
Glastopf
Amun
Amun
Amun
Demo
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Open Source (GPLv3)
github.com/threatstream/MHN
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?Questions
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Contact
• Jason Trost
• @jason_trost
• jason.trost [AT] threatstream [DOT] com
• github.com/jt6211
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