1. Introduction

This project aims to implement a honeypot. A honeypot is a computing resource intentionally designed to attract and deceive cyber attackers by simulating system vulnerabilities or exposing seemingly sensitive data. Its primary goal is to monitor and analyze attack techniques, gathering valuable intelligence to enhance overall security strategies.

Honeypots are powerful tools for studying malicious behavior and developing more effective defense mechanisms. A honeypot can simulate one or more machines. In this project, Beeware simulates over 30 devices, including routers, switches, servers, and employees' workstations. It is highly modular, allowing machines to be easily added or removed through Python scripts files. Due to Beeware's realistic design, the lab can also be used for networking and service tests. Users can analyze machine communication, verify the operation of services (HTTP, SSH, DNS, etc.), capture network traffic, and safely experiment with configurations or simple attacks all in a fully simulated environment.

This project leverages the Kathará Framework to provide a fully simulated network infrastructure. By utilizing Docker containers, the lab achieves high scalability with zero deployment costs. The Kathará Python APIs allow easy and flexible management of the entire lab environment.

• Fully simulated infrastructure: No need for physical devices.
• Scalable: Easily add or remove virtual network nodes.
• Zero deployment costs: Everything runs in Docker containers.
• Python API support: Automate and manage lab experiments programmatically.
• Flexible lab setups: Configure networks, hosts, and topologies as needed.

To create a realistic corporate environment, a network architecture was designed for a fictional company called "The Boys" a young, dynamic IT firm specializing in tailor made digital solutions for businesses and individuals, offering different hosting solutions, IT services and network infrastructure management.