Add UHBS — Universal Honeypot Benchmarking Standard

Author: cursor[bot]Created Sep 11, 2026Updated Sep 11, 2026

Summary

  • Adds UHBS under Guides, alongside T-Pot and the Security Canary Maturity Model.
  • Short description: open-source, vendor-neutral framework for evaluating honeypot / deception fidelity (UHQS scoring across protocol realism, telemetry, safety, and related modules).

Why this fits

  • UHBS is not itself a honeypot — it is an evaluation / benchmarking standard and lab tooling for honeypots and deception tech, which belongs with the Guides / related-components part of this list.
  • Complements existing detector entries under Anti-honeypot stuff (e.g. honeydet): those ask “is this a honeypot?”; UHBS asks “how realistic / safe / useful is this honeypot?”.
  • Open source (Apache-2.0), actively maintained, with CLI + published scorecards for common honeypots (Cowrie, OpenCanary, Dionaea, MQTT decoys, and more).
  • Not a duplicate of current listings (searched for UHBS / uhbs-standard / UHQS).

Proposed README entry (## Guides)

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- [UHBS](https://github.com/uhbs/uhbs-standard) - Open-source Universal Honeypot Benchmarking Standard for vendor-neutral honeypot and deception evaluation (UHQS scoring).

Place after the Security Canary Maturity Model bullet (before the Deployment subsection).

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Source: paralax/awesome-honeypots