TY - JOUR AU - Abd Halim, Iman Hazwam Bin AU - bin Abu Hassan, Nur Muhammad Irfan AU - Razak, Tajul Rosli AU - Jamaluddin, Muhammad Nabil Fikri bin AU - bin Ismail, Mohammad Hafiz PY - 2019/11/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reducing Honeypot Log Storage Capacity Consumption – Cron Job with Perl-Script Approach JF - Journal of Computing Research and Innovation JA - JCRINN VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - General Computing DO - 10.24191/jcrinn.v4i1.114 UR - https://jcrinn.com/index.php/jcrinn/article/view/114 SP - 16-26 AB - <p><span class="TextRun SCXW75862155 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW75862155 BCX0">Honeypot is a decoy computer system that is used to attract and monitor hackers’ activities in the network. The honeypot aims to collect information from the hackers in order to create a more secure system. However, the log file generated by honeypot can grow very large when heavy traffic occurred in the system, such as Distributed Denial of Services’ (DDoS) attack. The DDoS possesses difficulty when it is being processed and&nbsp;</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW75862155 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="SpellingError SCXW75862155 BCX0">analyzed</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW75862155 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW75862155 BCX0">&nbsp;by the network administrator as it required a lot of time and resources. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an approach to decrease the log size that is by using a Cron job that will run with a Perl-script. This approach parses the collected data into the database periodically to decrease the log size. Three DDoS attack cases were conducted in this study to show the increasing of the log size by sending a different amount of packet per second for 8 hours in each case. The results have shown that by utilizing the Cron job with Perl-script, the log size has been significantly reduced, the disk space used in the system has also decreased. Consequently, this approach capable of speeding up the process of parsing the log file into the database and thus, improving the overall system performance. This study contributes to providing a pathway in reducing honeypot log storage using the Cron job with Perl-Script.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW75862155 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200}">&nbsp;</span></p> ER -