Originally posted here by phobophiliac
Thanx Thread_Killer, You may be right about how exactly I would extract and use the data. I`m just really looking round for some good ideas that I could really get my teeth into and ultimately enjoy doing.

I would like to do something in the computer security field, i`m just not quite sure as to what as yet, hence why i`m here to bounce around a few ideas, and see what comes up.

Craig Dunn
The honeypot is a good idea, but like someone else said, make sure you set your scope of the project properly. Another good idea would be to implement an IDS, and document how you installed it, configured it, and in an ongoing sense how you tweaked it. What problems you saw, how you got certain applications working properly over it. Things of that nature. There are a lot of problems with IDS systems, in terms of requiring a lot of work to get them configured conrrectly. You could take the stance of, "What People Do Wrong With IDS Systems, and How To Overcome Those Problems."

There is certainly enough information out there about the issues, and you could use that research along with your own trial and error experiences to put together a good overview on using an IDS system.