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-# Cowrie
 
-Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.
+# Welcome to the Cowrie Docker GitHub repository
+
+This is the official repository for the Cowrie SSH and Telnet
+Honeypot effort.
+
+# What is Cowrie
+
+Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to
+log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the
+attacker.
 
 [Cowrie](http://github.com/micheloosterhof/cowrie/) is developed by Michel Oosterhof.