About OWASP Honeypot
The goal of the OWASP Honeypot Project is to identify emerging attacks against web applications and report them to the community, in order to facilitate protection against such targeted attacks.
Based around the earlier OWASP/WASC Distributed Web Honeypots Project (https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-distributed-web-honeypots)
The primary aims of the project are
This repository is organized into various directories. Below table shows the purpose of each one. Directory|Purpose honeytraps|Focuses on building honeytraps and reporting threat intelligence mds_elk|Shows a PoC for sending the ModSecurity Audit Logs to ELK using Filebeat misp-doc|Assists in setting the MISP Server and creating threat events using PyMISP mlogc_elk|Shows a PoC for sending the ModSecurity Audit Logs to ELK using ModSecurity Audit Log Collector (mlogc) Please go to respective directories for complete documentation.
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