14 DAY TRIAL // The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) form Tunisia decided to take part in the Honeynet Project by launching their own program called Saher-HoneyNet. The main goal of the project is to improve the security of their national cyberspace.
Every major organization in the country could benefit, including internet service providers, telecommunication companies, governments and even those responsible for the critical information infrastructures.
The project will provide detection tools, procedures on how to share information and technologies that will aid them in cleaning up and tracking malicious locations.
Since 2004, when the first research activities began, the program evolved a great deal until 2008, when a powerful detection platform was obtained.
“Now, the Tunisian honeynet project is a part of the Tunisian cyber early warning system 'SAHER' created to deal with all cyber threats and to coordinate with the international community,” reads the project's description.
The Honeynet Project is an international non-profit research organization dedicated to improving internet security. Their main goals are the fight against malware, the analysis of internet threats and the education of the public on the matter of internet security.
The tools and resources they provided to businesses and governments worldwide were of great help in the fight against cybercriminals.
The honeynet they rely on the most is actually a network that acts as a trap for cyberattacks. By setting up an isolated infrastructure that seems to be part of a network and by making it seem highly vulnerable and full of valuable information, researchers can closely monitor the activity of hackers.
The collected data is then utilized to create the valuable tools and resources needed for setting up a truly secure computing infrastructure.
The Tunisian project is new and the website contains limited information, but as their activities reveal themselves we'll get back on to subject to see how they're doing.