ShadowPlex

Threat Intel

ShadowPlex Threat Intel engages attackers to generate high-fidelity insights, capturing tools, tactics, and behaviors to drive faster, more effective response.

Attacker Tactics and Tools

Engage Attackers. Extract Actionable Threat Intelligence

Acalvio ShadowPlex uses deception to safely engage adversaries and collect high-fidelity telemetry in real time, capturing tools, techniques, and intent. This preemptive threat intelligence fills the gaps left by passive sources, accelerating investigation and strengthening active defense.

The Keys to Next-Gen Threat Intel

Adversary
Engagement Data

Engage attackers safely to gather intent, tools, and behaviors in real time
Turn interaction into intelligence that informs detection and defense

Attacker Tactics
and Tools

Observe real attacker tools, commands, and movement in your environment
Map TTPs to MITRE ATT&CK and known adversary profiles

Real-Time Threat Insights

Detect and monitor threats in progress through live adversary engagement
Deliver early, actionable intelligence to speed investigations

High-Fidelity Telemetry

Capture verified telemetry from attacker interaction with deception assets
Extract precise signals to accelerate response and reduce noise

Adversary Engagement Data

Use AI-driven deception to safely engage attackers across internal and external surfaces
Capture tools, commands, and movement paths as attackers interact with decoys
Reveal real-time behaviors and objectives without risk to production systems
Make every signal count with high-fidelity data that drives detection, hunting, and response

Attacker Tactics and Tools

Capture live attacker tools, commands, and techniques through direct engagement
Observe how adversaries operate within your environment—not in theory
Map observed behaviors to MITRE ATT&CK and known threat actor profiles
Enrich detection and threat hunting with intelligence grounded in real activity

Real-Time Threat Insights

Detect threats in progress by observing live attacker behavior
Deliver actionable intelligence while the adversary is still active
Reduce dwell time and speed up investigation with immediate visibility
Equip response teams with verified intel to act faster and with confidence

High-Fidelity Telemetry

Collect telemetry directly from attacker interaction with deception assets
Eliminate noise with verified, intent-based signals
Inform detection, hunting, and response with trustworthy data
Move from raw alerts to confident decisions with faster context

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.

ShadowPlex gathers intel directly from attacker interactions, offering real-time insights into tools, techniques, and infrastructure being used against your organization.

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.