CatchProbe SmartDeceptive is a commercial honeypots & deception tool by CatchProbe. SHIVA Spampot 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, integrations, company size fit, here is our conclusion:
Mid-market and enterprise security teams defending OT/ICS environments will find CatchProbe SmartDeceptive's protocol-level trap deployment invaluable; it's one of the few deception platforms that actually speaks SCADA and industrial protocols instead of just HTTP. The AI-driven trap placement cuts false positives that plague manual honeypot setups, and hybrid deployment means you can bait attackers on both cloud and plant floors. Skip this if your threat model is purely cloud-native SaaS applications or if you need a deception tool that doubles as a full detection platform; SmartDeceptive is explicitly built to feed threat intelligence into your existing security stack, not replace it.
Security teams running mail gateways or building threat intelligence feeds will find immediate value in SHIVA Spampot because it captures live spam samples without the overhead of commercial honeypot platforms, then analyzes them for IOCs and patterns you can act on immediately. The free, open-source model with 138 GitHub stars means you control the data and can deploy it in air-gapped or highly regulated environments where vendor-hosted solutions create friction. Skip this if you need polished dashboards, automated alert routing to your SIEM, or vendor support; SHIVA requires hands-on tuning and assumes you have time to parse its output yourself.
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CatchProbe SmartDeceptive: AI-based deception platform for collecting cyber threat intelligence. built by CatchProbe. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include AI-based trap deployment for threat intelligence collection, Real-time monitoring of decoy health and resource consumption, Protocol-level interaction support (FTP, SMTP, SSH, HTTP, SCADA)..
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