ShadowPlex

Targeted Threat Intel(TTI)

Actionable threat intelligence from external-facing decoys, including APIs and IPv6 IIoT devices, to detect reconnaissance and credential attacks early and support preemptive defense.

Attacker Tactics and Tools

Detect Reconnaissance. Deliver Targeted Threat Intelligence.

Deploy external-facing decoys to detect reconnaissance and credential attacks early. ShadowPlex Targeted Threat Intel delivers focused threat intelligence with IPs, credentials, and attack patterns, enabling faster investigation and stronger preemptive defense.

The Keys to Next-Gen Threat Intel

External-Facing Decoys

Detect reconnaissance and credential attacks with realistic decoys for web apps, APIs, and IPv6 IIoT services.
Blend seamlessly into your digital perimeter for early attack visibility.

Targeted Threat Intelligence

Real-time sharing of actionable indicators in STIX and other standard formats.
Includes IP addresses, credentials, and attack patterns for rapid response.

Flexible Deployment

Delivered as a managed cloud service or as an on-premises/cloud appliance.
Fully hosted options isolate attacker traffic from your production environment.

Simple Management

Configure decoys and view threat intel via an intuitive console.
Generate scheduled reports and manage integrations easily.

Adversary Engagement Data

Reconnaissance Detection

Detect early scanning of external-facing assets
Identify probing of web apps, APIs, and IIoT endpoints
Gain visibility into attacker infrastructure
Enable proactive defense before exploitation

Credential Abuse Monitoring

Catch password spraying and brute-force attempts
Detect credential stuffing campaigns
Log IPs and credentials used in attacks
Accelerate response to identity-based threats

API & IIoT Threat Visibility

Monitor unauthorized API access attempts
Detect malicious automation targeting IIoT devices
Identify abnormal machine-to-machine activity
Reduce risk to operational and connected systems

Threat Hunting Enablement

Use focused threat intel to guide hunts
Correlate external attack data with internal logs
Find stealthy or missed threats quickly
Strengthen preemptive security posture

Frequently Asked Questions

Deception-Based Preemptive Cybersecurity is a proactive defense strategy that uses deceptive artifacts—such as decoys, honeytokens, and fake credentials—to detect attackers already inside the network. These deception layers operate across endpoints, identity systems, and cloud workloads. Because the decoys have no business value, any interaction is a reliable indicator of malicious activity, enabling early, accurate detection and timely response—before adversaries reach their objectives.

Traditional tools often rely on known signatures or behavior tied to real assets—limiting their effectiveness against unknown threats, insider activity, or credential misuse. Preemptive Cybersecurity adds a new dimension of defense by detecting early-stage attacker activity through interaction with deceptive assets. It provides high-fidelity alerts, improves lateral movement visibility, and reduces dwell time—enabling defenders to act earlier and with greater precision.

Honeytokens are deceptive credentials and data artifacts embedded in legitimate systems, such as OS caches or cloud workloads. Honeytoken accounts are fake user or service accounts. Any interaction with these assets is a high-fidelity indicator of malicious activity—making them essential tools for detecting identity threats like lateral movement and credential misuse.

Deception excels where traditional detection fails: identifying silent lateral movement, credential misuse, and insider threats. Since decoys are not part of normal operations, any interaction is inherently suspicious. This results in high-confidence alerts that are resistant to evasion techniques, helping security teams detect stealthy intrusions and advanced persistent threats (APTs) that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Acalvio integrates seamlessly with leading EDR/XDR platforms, including CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, VMware Carbon Black, and leading SIEM/SOAR solutions.

By generating high-fidelity alerts the moment attackers engage with deceptive assets, deception reduces detection delays—dramatically lowering dwell time. These alerts come with rich context, enabling faster and more confident response.

Strategically placed honeytokens reveal evidence of attacker activity during the early stages of the attack lifecycle, stopping adversary breakout and enabling defenders to contain threats before they reach critical assets.

Traditional tools rely on known patterns and signatures, making them ineffective against unknown, low-and-slow, or insider threats. Deception provides a behavior-independent signal—triggered purely by intent.

It uses deception to uncover stealth tactics like lateral movement and privilege escalation across IT, OT, and cloud environments—delivering high-fidelity alerts with minimal noise.

By using native cloud APIs to deploy and monitor honeytokens across cloud-native services and IAM, ShadowPlex delivers agentless, multi-cloud threat detection.

Canary tokens are simple tripwires. Acalvio’s Honeytokens are context-aware, automatically deployed, and tightly integrated for enterprise-scale visibility and response.

They cover blind spots traditional controls miss—like service accounts and machine credentials—triggering alerts the moment they’re touched.

AI-driven automation recommends and deploys deception artifacts across your environment, blending them into existing systems for stealth and effectiveness.

Breakout time measures how fast attackers move laterally after initial access. Slowing or detecting this movement is critical to stopping escalation and limiting damage.

After gaining access, adversaries move laterally using stolen credentials, escalate privileges, and establish persistence to reach high-value assets undetected.

Built for Security Teams. Focused on Preemptive Defense.

Preemptive Cybersecurity
Intel

Detect threats at the earliest stages by engaging attackers before they reach real assets.
Divert and contain threats with deception, raising early warning before damage occurs.

Targeted Threat
Intelligence

Gain specific, contextual intelligence on adversaries targeting your organization.
Turn real-time insights into stronger defenses and faster response.

Threat
Hunting

Empower threat hunters with verified attacker behavior—not assumptions or noise.
Expose stealthy threats missed by traditional detection tools.

The ShadowPlex Portfolio of Products

Acalvio is the leader in Cyber Deception technology, built on over 25 issued patents in Autonomous Deception and advanced AI. The Acalvio Active Defense Platform provides robust Identity Protection, Advanced Threat Defense, and Threat Hunting products. Attackers Don’t Stop at the Edge. Neither Should You.