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Active Directory Is Ground Zero for Credential-Based Attacks
Expose the Active Directory Attack Surface
- Map shadow admins, unmanaged SPNs, stale accounts, and vulnerable configurations, without elevated privileges.
Deceive and Derail Credential Theft
- Plant AI-recommended decoy accounts, SPNs, and objects to catch attackers early in their reconnaissance phase.
Derail Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement
- Place realistic decoys to detect unauthorized domain traversal and stop escalation attempts in real time.
Respond Faster with Verified Alerts
- Deliver high-confidence alerts on real attacker engagement—not logs or behavior models—to accelerate containment.
Active Directory Protection with Preemptive Cybersecurity
Expose the AD Attack Surface
- Identify shadow admins and unmanaged SPNs.
- Monitor AD risk continuously without elevated domain rights.
AI-Guided Deception and Traversal Analysis
- Predict adversary movement with automated analysis.
- Deploy decoys intelligently to preempt attacker logic chains.
Map and Intercept Attack Paths
- Reveal shortest attack paths to critical assets.
- Place decoys along likely traversal routes to disrupt movement.
Accelerate Containment with Verified Alerts
- Trigger high-confidence alerts on real adversary engagement.
- Streamline response by integrating with SOC workflows.
Expose the Active Directory Attack Surface
See risks before attackers do.
- Identify shadow admins and unmanaged SPNs
- Map privilege paths without domain admin rights
- Continuously monitor for AD misconfigurations
- Prioritize exposures that attackers would exploit
Map and Intercept Attack Paths
Disrupt attackers before escalation.
- Analyze AD to find real-world attack paths
- Place decoys along traversal routes
- Detect ticket abuse and domain reconnaissance
- Block lateral movement toward domain control
AI-Guided Deception and Traversal Analysis
Predict attacker movement automatically.
- Model attacker pathways across AD structure
- Automate decoy placement at key decision points
- Adapt dynamically to domain changes
- Eliminate manual tuning and blind spots
Accelerate Containment with Verified Alerts
Act only on real threats.
- Trigger alerts on decoy engagement, not behavior guesses
- Integrate into SOC workflows for rapid containment
- Enrich detections with adversary behavior context
- Stop lateral movement before full domain compromise
How Acalvio Protects Active Directory
- Expose Attack Paths with InSights™ Passively map AD configurations, shadow admins, stale accounts, and unmanaged SPNs, without domain admin rights or agent deployment.
- Deploy Deceptive Assets Across AD Acalvio recommends and places decoy users, computers, groups, and SPNs that attackers can’t distinguish from real assets.
- Detect Reconnaissance and Lateral Movement When attackers interact with decoy objects, high-confidence alerts are generated immediately—exposing credential theft, escalation attempts, or unauthorized traversal.
- Contain Threats with SOC Integration Seamlessly feed verified alerts into SIEM, SOAR, or EDR platforms for rapid investigation and automated containment.
Acalvio InSights™: Reveal the Attacker’s View of AD
Builds an attacker’s view of your AD environment, exposing gaps before attackers exploit them. No domain admin rights or intrusive scans required. Key exposures include:
- Shadow admin accounts and over-permissioned users
- Kerberoastable accounts and unmanaged SPNs
- Orphaned and stale accounts creating hidden attack paths
- Misconfigured trusts, ACLs, groups, and GPOs
- Continuous visibility into attack surface across domains and forests
Acalvio Attack Path Analysis: See How Attackers Would Move
ShadowPlex maps potential lateral movement and privilege escalation paths an attacker would exploit inside Active Directory. Key capabilities include:
- Correlates relationships between users, groups, devices, and SPNs
- Identifies shortest attacker paths to domain dominance
- Highlights risky privilege escalation opportunities
- Enables security teams to proactively break attack chains
Curated ShadowPlex Deceptions for Active Directory
Acalvio Active Directory Deceptions: Targeted Defense, Powered by AI
ShadowPlex deploys purpose-built deceptions to detect and derail attackers before damage occurs:
- Prebuilt decoy objects for computers, users, services, and SPNs
- AI-guided recommendations for stealthy, realistic deception placement
- Detects Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, DCsync, Recon, and Golden SAML attacks
- Seamlessly blends decoys into the production AD to avoid detection
AI-Driven Deception Recommendation & Placement
ShadowPlex continuously adapts deception coverage to match AD changes:
- Uses AI to recommend realistic names, SPNs, and attributes
- Autonomously adjusts decoys as AD environments evolve
- Diverts attackers away from real assets toward decoys
- Removes the manual effort of ongoing deception maintenance
All decoy assets deployed by ShadowPlex are automatically hardened, preventing attackers from repurposing or pivoting from decoys to real production assets.
Containment & SOC Response
Immediately trigger high-fidelity alerts when attackers interact with decoy assets.
- Feed verified detections into SIEM, SOAR, or EDR tools for rapid response.
- Automate containment actions to isolate compromised endpoints or accounts.
- Prevent attackers from using decoy accounts or systems as footholds for further lateral movement inside production environments.
Built for Active Directory Security. Focused on Preemptive Defense
Expose and Reduce AD Risk
Continuously map misconfigurations, shadow admins, unmanaged SPNs, and stale accounts, without requiring elevated rights
Detect and Divert Threats Early
Deploy decoy users, service accounts, and SPNs to attract attackers. Trigger high-fidelity alerts on intent-based interactions
Automate Containment and Response
Feed alerts to SIEM, SOAR, or EDR systems to rapidly isolate compromised endpoints and prevent production impact.
Frequently Asked Questions
Acalvio ShadowPlex weaves in blended deceptions into the enterprise Active Directory, covering all entity types and relationships. Using Deceptions combined with AI provides a strong layer of protection in detecting recon, lateral movement, credential access and other malicious activities against the enterprise AD. ShadowPlex provides comprehensive AD protection, by both hardening AD Security and using deception in multiple ways to detect and redirect any AD attacks.
Yes, ShadowPlex can be used to protect Azure AD and Hybrid AD deployments. Deception technology is platform-agnostic and so is suited to any form of enterprise network and deployment model.
A Kerberoasting attack is a post-exploitation technique in which an attacker abuses the Kerberos authentication protocol in Active Directory environments to obtain hashed credentials of service accounts. The attacker requests a service ticket for a target service principal name (SPN) and extracts the ticket’s hash, which can then be cracked offline to reveal the account’s password. This attack exploits weak or easily crackable passwords used by service accounts, potentially granting the attacker elevated privileges within the network.
With its 150+ point analysis of the attack surface in AD and ADCS, ShadowPlex provides an attacker view and provides insights such as shadow admins, and Kerberoastable service accounts. AD assessment provides visibility into the attack surface with recommendations for mitigating the attack surface and reducing the possibility of such attacks.
