HoneyPy
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Python
- Latest release
- 0.7.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
The honeypot can be extended by plugins and customization is possible as well. This may increase the interaction level that the honeypot can support. All activity is logged to a file, with the option to post activity to Twitter or a web server.
Usage and audience
HoneyPy is commonly used for security monitoring. Target users for this tool are security professionals and system administrators.
Features
- Customization and additions are possible
- Extendable with custom tests and plugins
- Twitter integration
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
HoneyPy is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use HoneyPy.
- Twisted
- certifi
- dnslib
- pika
- python_twitter
- requests
- urllib3
HoneyPy alternatives
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Conpot
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Cowrie
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Dionaea
Dionaea is a honeypot that can emulate a range of services like FTP, HTTP, MySQL, and SMB. It can be used to see and learn how attackers work.
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