Financial Services and Preemptive Cybersecurity
- Show identity, infrastructure, and access exposures; deploy deception to detect and derail attackers before they reach high-value systems.
- Catch malicious use of service accounts, tokens, or session artifacts using identity-focused deception—not heuristics or logs.
- Detect unauthorized access to fake transaction data, customer records, or admin portals using decoys built for financial workflows.
- Detect polymorphic and AI-generated threats by luring them into deceptive assets—avoiding reliance on signatures, patterns, or prior knowledge.
Understand where attackers can go—and stop them from getting there.
- Map identity and infrastructure exposures attackers exploit
- Detect shadow admins, unmanaged assets, and over-permissioned accounts
- Deploy decoys across cloud, legacy, and third-party systems
- Continuously adapt deception to match evolving architecture
Traditional Security Solutions Fall Short for Financial Services
Reveal credential misuse before it reaches privileged access.
- Detect abuse of service accounts and cached credentials
- Deploy honeytokens across endpoints, cloud, and identity infrastructure
- Catch Golden Ticket, Kerberoasting, and SAML token-based abuse
- Trigger alerts only on confirmed adversary interaction
Detect internal misuse without profiling or behavior modeling.
- Deploy fake financial records, admin portals, and client data
- Detect access attempts outside approved workflows
- Capture clear evidence of intent through decoy interaction
- Operate silently without disrupting legitimate users or services
Reveal stealthy attacks designed to evade traditional controls.
- Detect AI-generated malware and polymorphic payloads via interaction
- Surface non-signature-based attacks using decoy engagement
- Catch malware targeting customer-facing portals or back-office systems
- Stop propagation by integrating deception alerts into EDR and SOAR
Deception Use Cases for Financial Services
ShadowPlex enables early, accurate threat detection across your most critical systems, assets, and operations.
Use honeytokens and deceptive credentials embedded in identity stores and endpoints to detect unauthorized access attempts.
Deploy baits that expose suspicious or malicious insider behavior targeting customer data, proprietary systems, or financial records.
Use agentless cloud deceptions to detect identity misuse, misconfigurations, and cloud-native threats targeting financial apps and storage.
Deploy decoys that mirror transaction systems, payment infrastructure, and customer databases to identify attacker interest and divert from production.
Surface never-before-seen malware, including AI-generated or polymorphic variants, by detecting interaction, not signatures.
Deliver intent-driven, triaged alerts with rich forensic evidence, reducing noise and accelerating response for time-sensitive attacks.
Trap attackers probing AD, Kerberos, or unmanaged SPNs as they attempt to move through the network or elevate access.
Automatically map exposed AD paths, shadow admins, and stale credentials, then block exploitation with deception-driven containment.
Bait high-value financial documents and assets to detect when attackers attempt to collect and move sensitive data out of the environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Financial services face a range of sophisticated cyber threats, including ransomware attacks, identity theft, insider threats, and specialized malware like banking trojans. These threats exploit the interconnected nature of financial systems to access valuable data.
Traditional security solutions fall short because they rely heavily on prevention and standard detection tools, which are often incompatible with the unique characteristics of financial infrastructure. In addition, attack methods such as identity compromise can completely bypass most cybersecurity solutions.
Deception technology enhances cybersecurity by deploying decoys and honeytokens that detect threats, such as identity-driven attacks, insider threats, and data exfiltration. This novel approach not only safeguards real sensitive information but also misleads and diverts attackers.
Built for Financial Services. Focused on Preemptive Defense
Acalvio delivers high-fidelity alerts based on adversary interaction—not anomaly guesses—so your team can focus on real threats, not false positives.
From identity misuse to lateral movement and insider risk, ShadowPlex exposes what traditional tools miss, reducing dwell time and limiting blast radius.
Acalvio agentless architecture, prebuilt playbooks tailored for financial workflows, and integrations protect large, complex environments without operational friction.
