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Gartner® names Acalvio a Tech Innovator in Preemptive Cybersecurity.
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At the Core of Preemptive Cybersecurity

The Acalvio platform uses advanced deception techniques to detect intrusions early, reduce dwell time, and enable faster, more confident response.
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Active Defense and Deception Demystified

Active defense strategies use cyber deception to detect intrusions early, shape the attack surface, mislead adversaries, and gather intelligence for rapid response.
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The Acalvio Preemptive Cybersecurity Platform

The Acalvio platform anticipates and mitigates threats by using AI-driven deception to detect intrusions early, disrupt attack paths, and stop adversaries before objectives are reached.
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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 created in systems like Active Directory. 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 platforms like CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and other SIEM/SOAR solutions. These integrations enable automated fulfillment of deception assets, real-time alerting, and orchestration of containment actions—enhancing your existing security stack with deception-powered early detection and response.
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.
Deception delays attacker movement by luring them to decoys, providing early warning 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.
They’re fully integrated—automatically deployed, monitored, and managed within the Falcon platform, with no additional software needed.
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.

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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.

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Identity Protection

Deception-powered ITDR that reveals identity attack paths, detects misuse, and disrupts credential-based threats before they escalate.
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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.

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Advanced Threat Defense

Combines breakthrough Deception Technology with Advanced AI for early detection of cyber threats with precision and speed.
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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.

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Cloud Security

Extends deception and honeytokens to IAM and cloud-native services, delivering precise threat detection across public clouds with minimal overhead.
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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.

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Threat Intel

Engages attackers to generate high-fidelity threat intel—capturing tools, tactics, and behaviors to inform faster, more effective response.
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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.

75%
of all security solutions will employ preemptive cybersecurity in the near future.
80%
of all data breaches involve compromised or stolen identities
60%
of intrusions involve lateral movement before detection
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.

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