Acalvio ShadowPlex Cloud Security is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by Acalvio Technologies. SSH 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.
Teams running internet-facing SSH services who need to understand attacker behavior and credential patterns should deploy SSH Honeypot; it's free and will immediately show you which usernames and passwords attackers are actually trying, giving you ground truth instead of speculation. The 671 GitHub stars and active maintenance reflect that this tool does one thing well: capturing and logging SSH reconnaissance without the operational overhead of a full interaction honeypot. Skip this if you need deception at scale across multiple protocols or if your threat model requires actually engaging attackers to observe post-compromise behavior.
AI-powered deception platform for cloud threat detection using honeytokens
A low-interaction SSH honeypot that logs connection attempts, usernames, and passwords without allowing actual login access.
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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..
SSH Honeypot: A low-interaction SSH honeypot that logs connection attempts, usernames, and passwords without allowing actual login access..
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