Acalvio ShadowPlex is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by Acalvio Technologies. OFPOT OpenFlow 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:
Mid-market and enterprise security teams with exposed APIs, web applications, or IoT infrastructure should use ShadowPlex to catch reconnaissance and credential attacks before they reach production systems. The platform's external-facing decoys generate high-fidelity threat intelligence in STIX format while monitoring for password spraying and brute-force attempts, directly addressing ID.RA and DE.CM in NIST CSF 2.0. Skip this if your attack surface is entirely internal or if you need deep visibility into post-breach lateral movement; ShadowPlex is optimized for early detection at the perimeter, not incident response.
Network teams managing SDN environments will get the most from OFPOT OpenFlow HoneyPot because it exploits a real gap in OpenFlow visibility,most threat detection tools ignore unused IP space entirely, leaving that attack surface dark. The tool costs nothing and deploys as a lightweight OpenFlow application, making it a low-friction addition to existing SDN infrastructure. Skip this if your network runs traditional switching or if you need honeypot coordination across multiple protocols; OFPOT is narrowly focused on the OpenFlow layer and won't help you bait attackers probing your enterprise perimeter.
Deception platform using external-facing decoys for threat intel & recon detection
An OpenFlow honeypot that detects unused IP addresses and simulates network traffic to attract and analyze potential threats
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Acalvio ShadowPlex: Deception platform using external-facing decoys for threat intel & recon detection. built by Acalvio Technologies. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include External-facing decoys for web apps, APIs, and IPv6 IIoT services, Reconnaissance detection and early attack visibility, Credential abuse monitoring (password spraying, brute-force, credential stuffing)..
OFPOT OpenFlow HoneyPot: An OpenFlow honeypot that detects unused IP addresses and simulates network traffic to attract and analyze potential threats..
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