Acalvio ShadowPlex Cloud Security is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by Acalvio Technologies. OWA Honeypot is a free honeypots & deception tool. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best honeypots & deception fit for your security stack.
CST VerdictBased on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, company size fit, deployment model, here is our conclusion:
Enterprise and mid-market teams managing multi-cloud infrastructure should adopt ShadowPlex Cloud Security if detecting lateral movement and privilege escalation in cloud identities is your weakest detection layer. Agentless deployment via native cloud APIs means you're live in AWS, Azure, and GCP without touching workloads, and the honeytoken approach catches attackers during reconnaissance when they're still gathering credentials rather than after breach. This tool prioritizes detection and intent capture over response automation, so it's less valuable for teams already confident in their cloud identity monitoring or those expecting the platform to enforce remediation workflows.
Security teams protecting on-premises Exchange environments will get real value from OWA Honeypot because it's free and requires minimal setup to start collecting actual attacker behavior against your most-targeted asset. The 70 GitHub stars and active Flask codebase mean you're inheriting a tool others have debugged in production, not a dormant project. Skip this if you're looking for managed honeypot infrastructure or need multi-protocol deception across your entire network; OWA Honeypot is deliberately narrow and requires you to run and monitor it yourself.
AI-powered deception platform for cloud threat detection using honeytokens
A Flask-based honeypot that simulates Outlook Web App (OWA) environments to attract and analyze malicious activities targeting OWA systems.
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Acalvio ShadowPlex Cloud Security: AI-powered deception platform for cloud threat detection using honeytokens. built by Acalvio Technologies. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include AI-powered honeytoken deployment across cloud environments, Agentless deployment via native cloud APIs, Multi-cloud threat detection across AWS, Azure, and GCP..
OWA Honeypot: A Flask-based honeypot that simulates Outlook Web App (OWA) environments to attract and analyze malicious activities targeting OWA systems..
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