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Protection provided by BitFence will block high risk hosts, malicious payloads, viruses, malware, suspicious addresses automatically within seconds everywhere around the globe after threat is "mined" by the network of their StingMiners and risk scored with BitFence Engine.

So this means BitFence device is enough to secure our network? Can it be good solution for antivirus as well? How honeypot concept will help in removing viruses as well?

In a simplified terms, the project creates like a trap, that is not noticeable by hackers, now when they get into the specified site (trap) and perhaps try to do something malicious, they will be detected and their identities will be noted which will be spread across the network, they also will open up a store where you can source for any protective hardware or software of your choice, so is like the total package, hope this helps

A pretty good explanation of what the honeypot type of trap is, honeypots and viruses are not the same, honeypots are to prevent against active attacks from the outside basicaly instead of them pounding your computer trying to let them in the honeypot lets them into a virtual box that they can hack all they want, because its all nonsense, and then when they leave poof they hacked nothing.

It is a mean of being proactive rather than re-active. As Phantam explained there is a difference between honeypots and viruses. Honeypots are baits meant to attract hackers and gather from that even as much information as possible to push those readings to a more solid software that protects.

Thank you guys for explaining this. I am not security experts but this explanation also with the help of whitepaper I am able to get familiar with this project.

One other thing I would like to add and I think worth knowing about is the fact that you can actually run the software in a commodity machine something the PI so you would have the bait on a separate system on a separate machine.

This also means you can effectively take the honeypot with you where ever you go, for example install it on a Pi Zero, and you could take it to coffee shops, hotels and even holidays, all places your more likely to see malicious users on the network.