NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM

Net-Hunt is lightweight, multi-service honeypot based Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) designed to capture high-fidelity attacker telemetry. It emulates commonly targeted network service SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and FTP on an isolated virtual machine, records every interaction in time zone aware JSON Lines (JSONL) format, and maintains per-service, per-day log files to simplify downstream ingestion and archival. Each event record includes a UTC timestamp, source address and port, service identifier, event type (for example: connection, username tried, password tried, request, command), and a truncated raw payload for safe analysis. This project documents safe deployment practices, a repeatable testing methodology, and an end-to-end pipeline from raw capture to analyst consumption. Deliverable include the Python honeypot implementation, a system d service for reliable operation, demo scripts for attack simulation, log shipping examples, and a final report with measured test results and example dashboards.