Cowrie
Tool and Usage
Cowrie is a honeypot to emulate SSH and telnet services. It can be used to learn attack methods and as an additional layer for security monitoring.
Usage and audience
This tool is categorized as a honeypot and SSH honeypot.
Cowrie is commonly used for information gathering, learning, security monitoring, or threat discovery. Target users for this tool are security professionals and system administrators.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 50 contributors
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
Installation
Supported operating systems
Cowrie is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use Cowrie.
- appdirs
- attrs
- configparser
- cryptography
- gmpy2
- packaging
- pyasn1_modules
- pycrypto
- pyOpenSSL
- pyparsing
- python-dateutil
- service_identity
- tftpy
- Twisted
Cowrie alternatives
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 1.2.0 [2017-07-10] |
| License | Custom license |
| Last updated | April 6, 2018 |
Project health
78
This score is calculated by different factors, like project age, last release date, etc.Links
 | GitHub project |
| Cowrie project website |
