Summary

This chapter reviewed several existing honeypot frameworks and cybersecurity monitoring technologies commonly used for attack logging, malware collection, and threat analysis.

The review included frameworks such as Cowrie, Dionaea, T-Pot, and Elastic Stack (ELK), highlighting their architectures, capabilities, and limitations in relation to cybersecurity research and honeypot deployment.

The analysis showed that although existing solutions provide valuable monitoring and visualization features, many of them are either highly technical, difficult to manage, or not specifically designed for modular web-based attack simulation.

The identified gaps demonstrate the need for a lightweight and extensible honeypot framework capable of centralized monitoring, structured logging, and vulnerability simulation within web application environments.

Based on these findings, the proposed WiseTrap framework aims to provide a practical and research-oriented solution for web-based attack monitoring, cybersecurity analysis, and threat intelligence collection.