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Financial institutions face relentless, well-funded adversaries who bypass MFA, abuse identity systems, and move laterally with precision. Acalvio delivers high-fidelity detection at enterprise scale—with the speed and accuracy needed to stop threats before impact.
Reveal Hidden Attack Paths and Exposed Assets
  • Show identity, infrastructure, and access exposures; deploy deception to detect and derail attackers before they reach high-value systems.
Expose Identity-Based Attacks Early
  • Catch malicious use of service accounts, tokens, or session artifacts using identity-focused deception—not heuristics or logs.
Uncover Insider Threats with Precision
  • Detect unauthorized access to fake transaction data, customer records, or admin portals using decoys built for financial workflows.
Defend Against AI-Enhanced Malware & Banking Trojans
  • Detect polymorphic and AI-generated threats by luring them into deceptive assets—avoiding reliance on signatures, patterns, or prior knowledge.

Preemptive Detection Without Operational Disruption

From credential theft to AI-crafted malware, attackers use stealth and sophistication to exploit identity systems and evade traditional defenses. ShadowPlex applies deception to reveal intent-driven threats early—across IT, cloud, and hybrid environments—without adding operational complexity.

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Reveal Hidden Attack Paths and Exposed Assets

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
Expose Identity-Based Attacks Early
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
Uncover Insider Threats with Precision

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
Defend Against AI-Enhanced Malware & Banking Trojans

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.

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Detect Credential Misuse Across IAM Systems

Use honeytokens and deceptive credentials embedded in identity stores and endpoints to detect unauthorized access attempts.

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Stop Insider Threats Before Damage Occurs

Deploy baits that expose suspicious or malicious insider behavior targeting customer data, proprietary systems, or financial records.

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Protect Cloud-Native Financial Services

Use agentless cloud deceptions to detect identity misuse, misconfigurations, and cloud-native threats targeting financial apps and storage.

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Protect Core Financial Applications and Databases

Deploy decoys that mirror transaction systems, payment infrastructure, and customer databases to identify attacker interest and divert from production.

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Reveal AI-Driven and Zero-Day Malware and Ransomware

Surface never-before-seen malware, including AI-generated or polymorphic variants, by detecting interaction, not signatures.

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Accelerate SOC Investigations with High-Fidelity Alerts

Deliver intent-driven, triaged alerts with rich forensic evidence, reducing noise and accelerating response for time-sensitive attacks.

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Expose Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement

Trap attackers probing AD, Kerberos, or unmanaged SPNs as they attempt to move through the network or elevate access.

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Reduce the Financial Attack Surface

Automatically map exposed AD paths, shadow admins, and stale credentials, then block exploitation with deception-driven containment.

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Detect Data Exfiltration Attempts

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.

Acalvio provides deception strategies tailored to mimic and protect specific financial IT assets, ensuring no production impact with agentless deployment. Acalvio offers a scalable deception platform and preintegration with traditional security solutions, all designed to enhance threat detection and response without disrupting operations.

Organizations should choose Acalvio for its specialized deception technology that addresses the unique challenges of financial services. Acalvio’s solutions provide unparalleled visibility, automated threat detection, and compliance, all while ensuring ease of use and integration with existing IT security infrastructure.

Built for Financial Services. Focused on Preemptive Defense

Detect Threats with Precision, Not Noise

Acalvio delivers high-fidelity alerts based on adversary interaction—not anomaly guesses—so your team can focus on real threats, not false positives.

Close Gaps Attackers Exploit

From identity misuse to lateral movement and insider risk, ShadowPlex exposes what traditional tools miss, reducing dwell time and limiting blast radius.

Deploy at Scale Without Disruption

Acalvio agentless architecture, prebuilt playbooks tailored for financial workflows, and integrations protect large, complex environments without operational friction.

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.

Transform Financial Services Cybersecurity with Deception

This brief is about using cutting-edge, preemptive technology and proactive deception defense strategies to protect your financial services from advance cybersecurity threats. This is no longer just a nice to have option. It’s essential.

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