The concern of information security and data protection is growing and getting more critical day by day within organizations and companies. This has led developers and researchers to find advanced ways of defense against attacks on networks. One of these ways is using Honeypots. Honeypot is an information security resource used to protect network resources in the way of diverting attackers from their real targets. At the same time, it is used as a tool intended to be attacked and compromised to collect information about attacks that organizations might face and use the collected data to develop methods for protection against these attacks. Honeypots generally come in many forms and shapes, and they are classified according to the level of interaction with attackers. Low interaction Honeypots are easy to maintain and deploy with few risks. High interaction Honeypots are more advanced in terms of maintenance and deployment and more risky but they will gather more extensive and accurate information than low interactive Honeypots. The aim of this paper is to provide a review on Honeypots. It also analyses Honeypots under three (3) main categories: Implementation, effectiveness and limitation in the security field.

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a prospective in which physical objects are used in our daily life are going to be connected to the Internet by appropriate mode of information and communication technologies, but far from traditional desktop environment. The aim of IoT is to create a better world for human beings using a common infrastructure to conjugate everything in our world. This will make us to control of these objects and keep letting us about their state. Enormous number of devises are participating in this technology, therefore, the security challenges play a vital role while adapting IoT. This paper provides an overview of IoT with emphasis on state of art review on operating systems, platforms and application domains. The IoT architecture and security challenges are presented as well.