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 nine alternatives to Cowrie for SaaS, Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux and Windows. The best Cowrie alternative is Thinkst Canary. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Defused or Aves Netsec. Other great apps like Cowrie are Labyrinth Deception Platform, Tracebit, Attivo Networks and Kippo.

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    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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Thinkst Canary is the most popular SaaS alternative to Cowrie.

    • Thinkst Canary is the most popular commercial alternative to Cowrie.

    • Thinkst Canary is Paid and ProprietaryCowrie is Free and Open Source
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    Labyrinth is a deception-based threat detection technology that identifies and blocks cyber-attacks from within a corporate network.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Labyrinth Deception Platform is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cowrie.

    • Labyrinth Deception Platform is Paid and ProprietaryCowrie is Free and Open Source
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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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Tracebit is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cowrie.

    • Tracebit is Paid and ProprietaryCowrie is Free and Open Source
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    Defused provides plug-and-play capacities for internal detection of security incidents using decoys.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Defused is the most popular free alternative to Cowrie.

    • Defused is Freemium and ProprietaryCowrie is Free and Open Source
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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 (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Aves Netsec is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Cowrie.

    • Aves Netsec is Freemium and ProprietaryCowrie is Free and Open Source
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    Deception technology for early and accurate threat detection of in-network threats. Decoys, endpoint, application, and data deceptions deceive and detect attackers.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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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
     
    • Kippo is the most popular Open Source alternative to Cowrie.

    • Kippo is Free and Open SourceCowrie is also Free and Open Source
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    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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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