The Honeynet Project

The Italian Honeynet Project is a research group formed by
professionals and scholars having whose main interests and activity lay
in the information security field.
The Chapter has been officially constituted in May 2009 following
the agreement with the main Honeynet Project’s Board. It is the result
of the final development of The Dorothy Project, a research
work started by Marco Riccardi in September 2008 and presented to the
University of Milan as his Laurea Thesis in February 2009. Prof. Marco
Cremonini acted as his tutor for the thesis project.
The original Dorothy Project research focused on botnets and on tracking/discovering methodologies for their analysis. The Italian Honeynet Project
firstly inherits the same research goal with the important extension to
the tracking of fast flux domain. This extended aim is possible thanks
to the ongoing integration of the Dorothy infrastructure with the TIP tool developed by Angelo Dell’Aera that has joined in project in June 2009.
Currently the team is actively working on both tools, Dorothy and
TIP, constantly developing and tuning them and on their integration.
Botnets are a fast-developing technology that require an equally
fast development of defense strategies. The ultimate goal of our
project is to provide a free and open environment where botnets can be
analyzed and where professionals and researchers may acquire fresh
information about the most up-to-date threats that botnets may pose.
By aiming to offer to the community an open platform with all
information about the botnets that we are studying, we hope to improve
the security of Internet at no cost for the public, fully and
enthusiastically sharing the same goal of The Honeynet Project.