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Acalvio ShadowPlex is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by Acalvio Technologies. PacketViper Deception360 is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by PacketViper. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best honeypots & deception fit for your security stack.
Based 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 running flat or segmented networks who need to stop attackers before they reach production assets should deploy Deception360 for its agentless inline posture and automated kill-chain interception without requiring a SOAR. The platform covers DE.AE and DE.CM equally, meaning it detects intrusions and prevents lateral movement in the same workflow, which is rare in deception tools that typically excel at one. Skip this if your organization needs external threat intelligence feeds as a primary input; Deception360 generates IOCs from internal deceptions, not third-party threat data, so it works best as a detection amplifier alongside existing monitoring, not a replacement for it.
Deception platform using external-facing decoys for threat intel & recon detection
Agentless deception platform with internal & external decoy deployment.
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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)..
PacketViper Deception360: Agentless deception platform with internal & external decoy deployment. built by PacketViper. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include Internal and external decoy deployment (Deception360), Agentless, inline network deployment as a bridged connection, Automated threat detection, prevention, response, and containment without SOAR..
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