South African hacker Haroon Meer founded Thinkst Applied Research, which revolutionised network intrusion detection with its Canary honeypot tools.
On 31 May 2015, they officially launched Canary, after working on it for about a year.
“We think it’s insane that organisations that spent millions of dollars on cybersecurity took months or years to realise that they were breached,” Meer wrote at the time.
What set Canary apart was that the software was open-sourced, allowing anyone to build their own device if they wanted to.
I did not actually know that Canary honeypot originated from a South African company, nor that it was opensourced (see Github thinkst / opencanary). I see it even has a Docker installation.