Acalvio Launches ShadowPlex AI Agent in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace
New agentic AI capability automatically generates deception playbooks from natural language, enabling organizations to defend against AI-driven attacks and protect enterprise AI infrastructure
SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 29, 2026 — As AI-driven cyberattacks accelerate reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement, security teams face increasing pressure to deploy defenses faster and more consistently. Yet designing and deploying effective deception strategies has traditionally required specialized expertise.
Today, Acalvio Technologies announced the launch of the ShadowPlex AI Agent in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace. The agent, which integrates with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, enables security teams to describe a security objective in natural language and automatically generate a ready-to-deploy deception playbook, transforming deception engineering from a specialized discipline into an AI-driven workflow.
Turning Security Intent into Deception Playbooks
The ShadowPlex AI Agent enables security teams to define objectives in plain language and automatically generates the corresponding deception strategy, deployment plan, and playbook. Whether the objective is detecting lateral movement, disrupting AI-driven reconnaissance, identifying credential abuse, protecting privileged identities, or securing enterprise AI agents and AI-enabled infrastructure, the agent autonomously reasons through the requirement and produces a structured deception playbook ready for deployment through the ShadowPlex platform.
What previously required deep deception expertise can now be completed in minutes, enabling organizations to operationalize deception more quickly, consistently, and at greater scale.
“Security teams know what they want to detect, but translating that intent into effective deception deployments has traditionally required specialized expertise,” said Ram Varadarajan, CEO of Acalvio Technologies. “The ShadowPlex AI Agent closes that gap by turning security objectives into actionable deception playbooks, allowing organizations to deploy deception with greater speed, consistency, and scale. Whether the goal is defending against AI-powered adversaries or protecting enterprise AI infrastructure, the agent helps security teams move from intent to action in minutes.”
Defending Against AI Attacks and Protecting AI Infrastructure
As organizations confront AI-powered adversaries while rapidly deploying their own AI agents and AI-enabled systems, the ShadowPlex AI Agent helps generate deception playbooks for both challenges. Security teams can create playbooks designed to disrupt AI-driven reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement while also protecting AI agents, AI-enabled workflows, and emerging AI infrastructure from misuse, compromise, and unauthorized access.
By applying the same agentic approach to both use cases, organizations can extend deception-based defenses across their evolving AI landscape.
Enterprise-Wide Coverage
The ShadowPlex AI Agent generates deception playbooks across the full enterprise attack surface, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud environments, identity systems, IT and OT networks, and enterprise AI infrastructure. This enables organizations to operationalize a unified deception program across traditional and emerging environments from a common platform, while maintaining consistency in how security objectives are translated into deployable deception strategies.
Availability
The ShadowPlex AI Agent is available now through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace, providing organizations with a new way to operationalize agentic AI for deception engineering at enterprise scale.
About Acalvio Technologies
Acalvio is an AI-powered deception technology company focused on countering AI-driven identity and infrastructure intrusion. Its 360 Deception ShadowPlex platform creates a preemptive security defense combining dynamic HoneyPaths and cloaking of production assets within a deception fabric to disrupt automated reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement across identity systems, endpoints, cloud, network, and cyber-physical environments. By altering what attackers can perceive and trust, Acalvio shifts detection from post-compromise analysis to pre-impact exposure, enabling organizations to detect, delay, disrupt, and deny malicious activity at machine speed. The company serves enterprise and government organizations determined to break automated intrusion at its source. https://www.acalvio.com/
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