Explain Advantages and Disadvantages of honeypot

Advantages of honeypot:

Honeypots collect data from actual attacks and other unauthorized activities, providing analysts with a rich source of useful information.
Acts as a rich source of information and helps collect real-time data.
Identifies malicious activity even if encryption is used.
Wastes hackers’ time and resources.
Improves security.Ordinary cybersecurity detection technologies generate alerts that can include a significant volume of false positives, but honeypots reduce this volume because there is no reason for legitimate users to access them.
Honeypots can be good investments because they do not require high-performance resources to process large volumes of network traffic looking for attacks, because they only interact with malicious activities.
Honeypots capture malicious activity, even if an attacker is using encryption.

Honeypots only collect information when an attack occurs. Zero attempts to access the honeypot means there is no data to analyze.
Being distinguishable from production systems, it can be easily identified by experienced attackers.
Having a narrow field of view, it can only identify direct attacks.
A honeypot once attacked can be used to attack other systems.
Fingerprinting(an attacker can identify the true identity of a honeypot ).
Malicious traffic that has been captured is only collected when an attack targets the honeypot network; if attackers suspect a network is a honeypot, they will avoid it.
Honeypots are often distinguishable from legitimate production systems, which means experienced hackers can often differentiate a production system from a honeypot system using system fingerprinting techniques.