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Acalvio ShadowPlex is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by Acalvio Technologies. OWASP 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.
Security teams building internal threat intelligence programs on a shoestring budget should deploy OWASP Honeypot to observe attacker behavior without licensing costs or vendor lock-in. At 478 GitHub stars with active Python maintainers, it's stable enough for lab and early production honeynets, and the open-source model means you control the detection logic entirely rather than relying on vendor telemetry. Skip this if you need managed honeypot infrastructure, real-time alerting integrations, or commercial support; you're building and monitoring honeypots yourself here.
Deception platform using external-facing decoys for threat intel & recon detection
An open-source Python software for creating honeypots and honeynets securely.
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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)..
OWASP Honeypot: An open-source Python software for creating honeypots and honeynets securely..
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