ShadowPlex

Identity Protection

ShadowPlex Identity Protection gives you deep visibility into the identity attack surface and enables high-fidelity detection through deception-powered ITDR

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Targeted Honeytokens

IAM, PAM, and MFA Solutions Won’t Catch Everything.

Even with Identity, Privileged Access, and Multi-Factor Controls in place, attackers still succeed. Add deception-powered ITDR to detect credential misuse, impersonation, and privilege abuse quickly and accurately.

Expose Credential-Based Incursions Without Disrupting Identity Systems

Decoy Honey Accounts

AI-generated deceptive identities in AD and cloud to expose attackers on contact
Trigger high-confidence alerts on credential misuse, escalation, or lateral moves

Targeted Honeytokens

AI-curated credentials in memory, caches, cloud workloads, and applications
Detect theft and reconnaissance early without touching identity stores

Deceptive Privileged Credentials

Seed admin-level bait in endpoints and cloud environments
Expose privilege escalation attempts instantly—no risk to real accounts

Active Directory Signals

Analyzes attacker queries and behavior targeting AD environments.
Correlates deceptive activity with AD signals to boost detection precision.

Unauthorized Access Detection

Monitor deceptive assets across identity systems—including Active Directory
Highlight real threats like lateral movement and privilege abuse with precision

Identity Attack Surface Management (ASM)

Maps exposed identity assets across endpoints, cloud, and AD environments.
Closes detection gaps and informs optimal placement of deception assets.

Decoy Honey Accounts

Deploy deceptive user and service accounts that blend into AD, Azure AD, and cloud directories
AI-powered realism fools attackers and immediately exposes credential misuse and lateral movement
Provide early, high-confidence alerts without touching real identity infrastructure
Reduce attacker dwell time and improve threat visibility across the identity plane

Targeted Honeytokens

AI-created credential artifacts placed in memory, OS caches, cloud workloads, and applications
Planted in attacker-accessible locations to detect reconnaissance and credential theft
Trigger immediate, high-confidence alerts on any interaction—without modifying identity stores
Provide broad attacker visibility with zero impact to operational systems

Deceptive Privileged Credentials

AI-generated admin-level credentials planted in endpoints and cloud environments to lure attackers
Appear valid but are non-functional—any attempt to use or extract them triggers alerts
Detect privilege escalation and lateral movement attempts before real accounts are touched
Deliver early warning with no risk to production systems or identity infrastructure

Unauthorized Access Detection

Uses AI-powered deception to monitor interaction with deceptive cDetects unauthorized access attempts across endpoints, cloud, and identity systems
Credentials and identity assets
Surfaces high-confidence alerts for credential misuse, privilege escalation, and lateral movement
Reduces alert fatigue by filtering noise and focusing response on verified attacker activity

Attack Surface Management

Map and monitor exposed identity assets across endpoints and infrastructure
Identify gaps in identity hygiene that attackers could exploit
Improve security posture with proactive visibility grounded in preemptive cybersecurity principles
Strengthen deception placement for earlier and more accurate detection

Active Directory Signals

Analyze attacker queries and interactions with deceptive AD assets
Reveal early indicators of credential misuse, reconnaissance, and lateral movement
Correlate deceptive activity with real AD signals to boost detection accuracy
Deliver context-rich insights to gain actionable insights and accelerate investigation and response

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 leading EDR/XDR platforms, including CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, VMware Carbon Black, and leading SIEM/SOAR solutions.

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.

Strategically placed honeytokens reveal evidence of attacker activity during the early stages of the attack lifecycle, stopping adversary breakout 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.

Three Core Enterprise-wide Benefits

Preemptive Identity Protection

Detect and respond to credential-based incursions before they escalate.
Use AI-powered deception to stop lateral movement and privilege abuse early.

Frictionless Alignment with Zero Trust

Extend Zero Trust to identity systems with continuous threat detection.
Validate access attempts through deceptive assets—without disrupting operations.

Scalable Coverage with Operational Efficiency

Protect hybrid identity environments across endpoints, cloud, and AD.
Gain high-fidelity alerts and full visibility—without manual overhead or alert fatigue.

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.