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.
Canaries can be deployed in minutes (even on complex networks), giving you all of the benefits of a honeypot without the admin downsides.
Thinkst Canary is the most popular SaaS alternative to Cowrie.
Thinkst Canary is the most popular commercial alternative to Cowrie.
Labyrinth is a deception-based threat detection technology that identifies and blocks cyber-attacks from within a corporate network.
Labyrinth Deception Platform is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cowrie.
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.
Tracebit is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cowrie.
Defused provides plug-and-play capacities for internal detection of security incidents using decoys.
Defused is the most popular free alternative to Cowrie.
Aves is a cloud-based cyber deception platform used to deploy and manage deception decoys in your on-premise & cloud environments.
Aves Netsec is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Cowrie.
Deception technology for early and accurate threat detection of in-network threats. Decoys, endpoint, application, and data deceptions deceive and detect attackers.
Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
Kippo is the most popular Open Source alternative to Cowrie.
Lupovis provides precise, high-fidelity threat identification with a drastically reduced alert to noise ratio through a SaaS Decepetion as a Service platform.
Reduce your reaction time to hackers thanks to Trapster's honeypot which quickly alerts you in case of intrusion on your company's network.
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