Cowrie Alternatives

Cowrie is described as 'Medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker. Cowrie also functions as an SSH and telnet proxy to observe attacker behavior to another system' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cowrie for SaaS, Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux and Windows. The best Cowrie alternative is PivotGG, which is free. Other great apps like Cowrie are Thinkst Canary, Labyrinth Deception Platform, Tracebit and Defused.

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  1. PivotGG icon
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    AI-powered pivot workflows and detection queries for incident response - paste an IOC, get guided pivot workflows, AI-generated Splunk/KQL searches, detection opportunities, and exportable investigation reports.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Canaries can be deployed in minutes (even on complex networks), giving you all of the benefits of a honeypot without the admin downsides.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Labyrinth is a deception-based threat detection technology that identifies and blocks cyber-attacks from within a corporate network.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Tracebit icon
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    Tracebit detects and contains security incidents using cloud canaries. Tracebit generates and maintains tailored canary resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps in stock protection without time and cost intensive detection engineering.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Defused icon
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    Defused provides plug-and-play capacities for internal detection of security incidents using decoys.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Aves Netsec icon
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    Aves is a cloud-based cyber deception platform used to deploy and manage deception decoys in your on-premise & cloud environments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Deception technology for early and accurate threat detection of in-network threats. Decoys, endpoint, application, and data deceptions deceive and detect attackers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Kippo icon
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    Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Lupovis provides precise, high-fidelity threat identification with a drastically reduced alert to noise ratio through a SaaS Decepetion as a Service platform.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Reduce your reaction time to hackers thanks to Trapster's honeypot which quickly alerts you in case of intrusion on your company's network.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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