Preemptive Cybersecurity Technology and Industry Solutions

At the Core of Preemptive Cybersecurity
Active Defense and Deception Demystified
The Acalvio Preemptive Cybersecurity Platform
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.
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Attackers Don’t Stop at the Edge. Neither Should You.
Acalvio’s patented platform delivers the most advanced implementation of preemptive cybersecurity—using AI-powered deception to detect intrusions early, disrupt attacker movement, and accelerate response.
Identity Protection
Deception-powered ITDR that reveals identity attack paths, detects misuse, and disrupts credential-based threats before they escalate.
Targeted Honeytokens

Reveal Identity Threats with Deception-based ITDR
Identity-driven attacks often bypass traditional security controls such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) adds a critical detection layer to uncover credential misuse, impersonation, and privilege abuse. Deception-based ITDR uses honeytokens to detect identity threats with high precision—allowing precise detection of identity threats at their earliest stages.
Advanced Threat Defense
Combines breakthrough Deception Technology with Advanced AI for early detection of cyber threats with precision and speed.
Early Intrusion Detection

Expose Stealthy Threats with Deception-powered Defense
Cyberattacks are increasingly stealthy, often bypassing traditional detection tools. Deception provides a proactive layer of defense, enabling early and accurate detection of advanced threats across IT, Operational Technology (OT), and cloud environments. By revealing lateral movement and attacker behavior inside the network, deception-powered threat defense helps stop intrusions before they escalate.
Cloud Security
Extends deception and honeytokens to IAM and cloud-native services, delivering precise threat detection across public clouds with minimal overhead.
Multi-Cloud Detection

Preemptive Threat Detection for Multi-Cloud Environments
ShadowPlex Cloud Security (SCS) delivers agent-less, deception-based threat detection for multi-cloud environments. Built for enterprise scale, SCS protects cloud-native workloads by leveraging native cloud provider APIs to deploy, manage, and monitor honeytokens. This approach enables early, precise detection of malicious activity across cloud infrastructure—without adding operational complexity.
Threat Intel
Engages attackers to generate high-fidelity threat intel—capturing tools, tactics, and behaviors to inform faster, more effective response.
Attacker Tactics and Tools

Turn Attacker Engagement into Actionable Intelligence
Acalvio uses deception to safely engage attackers, collecting real-time intelligence on tools, techniques, and behaviors. This high-fidelity telemetry reveals adversary objectives, accelerates investigation, and strengthens overall defense. Deception-based threat intelligence fills critical gaps left by traditional sources, delivering insight grounded in direct attacker interaction.








Who We Are
Acalvio’s mission is to help enterprises actively defend against advanced security threats with precision and speed. Acalvio’s patented ShadowPlex Cyber Deception platform enables organizations to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity across hybrid cloud deployments, protecting both IT and OT networks.
The Silicon Valley based company is led by an experienced team with a track record of innovative market leadership and backed by marquee investors.