Sara thinks that someone keeps trying to hack into her company's system and wants to know who and why. She decides to use a computer to set up a sacrificial lamb on the network. What is Sara practicing?
A)Statistical anomaly-based IDS
B)Honeypot
C)Network-based Detection
D)Host-based Detection

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When a company decides to use a computer to set up a sacrificial lamb on a network, they are creating a honeypot. This is to entice a would-be attacker to this computer instead of attacking authentic production systems on a network. The honeypot contains no real company information and thus will not be at risk if and when it is attacked. It also enables the administrator to know when certain types of attacks are happening so the environment can be fortified to track down the attacker.

Sara Thinks That Someone Keeps Trying to Hack into Her