The wireless sensor networks are prone to various attacks; this is primarily due to the fact that these networks once deployed are left unattended. So any attacker with the intention of stealing the information from the network can compromise any node and gain access to the data being propagated in the network. Various attacks possible are black hole attack, wormhole attack, Sybil attack, clone attack etc. This paper represents the various techniques that have been presented in the past for the detection and prevention of the Sybil attack.