ShadowPlex

Cloud Security

ShadowPlex Cloud Security delivers AI-powered deception and honeytokens to IAM and cloud-native services, providing fast and accurate threat detection across public clouds with minimal overhead.

Multi-Cloud Detection

Preemptive Threat Detection for Multi-Cloud Environments

ShadowPlex Cloud Security (SCS) delivers scalable, agentless detection using AI-powered deception and honeytokens. Deployed via native cloud APIs, it protects cloud-native workloads and IAM infrastructure—exposing threats early without adding complexity.

Four Core Capabilities That Power Preemptive Cloud Defense

Cloud Workload Protection

Detect lateral movement and credential misuse inside VMs, containers, and serverless functions
Deploys agentlessly via cloud-native APIs to scale across cloud platforms without disruption

Attacker Signals in the Cloud

Capture real-time behavior and intent through deception interaction
Deliver high-fidelity alerts that expose real threats—faster and with less noise

Cloud Identity Threat Defense

Detect misuse of IAM roles, credentials, and secrets during early attack stages
Insert deception into identity paths to expose privilege escalation and lateral access

Multi-Cloud Detection

Unify threat detection across AWS, Azure, and GCP with no agents or added complexity
Eliminate visibility gaps across workloads, services, and cloud identity layers

Cloud Workload Protection

Provides preemptive detection of threats across VMs, containers, and serverless functions
Uses deception to uncover lateral movement, credential misuse, and privilege escalation
Deploys agentlessly using native cloud APIs for seamless integration at scale
Delivers high-fidelity alerts early—without disrupting workload performance

Cloud Identity Threat Protection

Enables preemptive detection of credential misuse and privilege escalation in IAM paths
Places deception in identity repositories like Instance Metadata and Secrets Store
Reveals unauthorized access attempts during reconnaissance and lateral movement
Operates without disrupting legitimate identity operations or cloud-native workflows

ShadowPlex Honeytokens

Honeytokens are a proven deception technique for detecting a wide range of threats. ShadowPlex Honeytokens can be deployed across IAM directories and cloud workloads, with any interaction serving as a high-fidelity signal of malicious activity.

Attacker Signals

Provides preemptive visibility into attacker behavior and intent through deception interaction
Identifies credential misuse, lateral movement, and privilege escalation early in the kill chain
Filters out noise by delivering high-fidelity, context-rich alerts
Equips security teams with actionable insights grounded in real attacker activity—not assumptions

Multi-Cloud Detection

Unifies visibility and early threat detection across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Integrates natively with cloud APIs to deploy deception without agents or added complexity
Closes visibility gaps in cloud workloads, services, and IAM infrastructure
Ensures consistent protection across workloads, services, and identity layers while delivering early, actionable alerts

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 platforms like CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and other SIEM/SOAR solutions. These integrations enable automated fulfillment of deception assets, real-time alerting, and orchestration of containment actions—enhancing your existing security stack with deception-powered early detection and response.

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.

Deception delays attacker movement by luring them to decoys, providing early warning 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 Cloud Security Teams. Focused on Preemptive Defense.

Preemptive Protection Across Multi-Cloud Environments

Detect threats early—before lateral movement or credential abuse escalate.
Stop identity-based and workload-targeted attacks with deception-driven visibility.

Agentless Deployment. Scalable by Design.

Use native cloud APIs to deploy deception across AWS, Azure, and GCP—no agents, no friction.
Protect every layer of your cloud infrastructure without changing how it’s built.

High-Fidelity Alerts Without Operational Noise

High-Fidelity Alerts Without Operational Noise
Accelerate response with verified signals that reduce false positives and investigation time.

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.