Acalvio Launches Industry’s First Comprehensive Distributed Deception Platform to Protect Public Cloud Workloads
Acalvio™ Technologies, the global cloud deception leader, announced availability of ShadowPlex Cloud, a fundamentally new platform designed to protect cloud assets. Built on Acalvio’s patented Autonomous Deception technology, ShadowPlex Cloud detects malicious activity within public cloud environments with precision and speed, in a DevSecOps fashion, with minimal IT overhead. ShadowPlex Cloud extends deception to the cloud and supports all leading public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The market for deception technology is projected to reach $2.12 billion globally by the end of 2021, according to Research and Markets’ Global Deception Technology Market report, demonstrating the need for deception security technology across organizations. ShadowPlex leverages seminal inventions in AI, Software Defined Networking (SDN), distributed Deception and micro-services, delivering scale, automation and authenticity with low IT impact. In addition to Detection, ShadowPlex engages with adversaries in shadow networks to understand Tools, Techniques and Processes (TTPs) to gain further insight in order to facilitate timely and effective response.
Gartner identifies deception platforms technology with “Benefit Rating: High” in its Hype Cycle for Threat-Facing Technologies, 2018.
ShadowPlex Cloud leverages AI to engineer and deploy a rich mix of deceptions at scale, powers it from the cloud and blends it with target assets. Cloud-specific decoys include Infrastructure Compute, Services, Storage, and even Application Decoys (Containers, Kubernetes Clusters, etc.). Specific benefits of the ShadowPlex Cloud platform include:
- Effective Deception: Acalvio’s FluidDeception™ automatically presents attackers with a comprehensive environment of realistic and non-fingerprintable decoys, lures, baits and breadcrumbs that blend in with an organization’s actual network and assets.
- Flexible Deployment: DevOps for Deception™ dramatically reduces the cost of operation compared to first generation deception products by dynamically and automatically deploying the most effective and relevant deceptions. By delivering deception in and from the cloud, organizations can easily implement dynamic deceptions wherever their assets are deployed.
- Scalability: DeceptionFarmsTM simplify the management of distributed deceptions across network topologies. Acalvio’s solution does not require access to trunk or span ports and costly infrastructure changes.
- Low IT Impact: ShadowPlex Cloud’s unique combination of AI, SDN, Dynamic Deception and Cloud Technology resulting in Autonomous Deception dramatically lowers the cost of deploying Deception solutions. The platform simultaneously increases efficacy, when compared to first generation deception products, by dynamically and automatically deploying the most effective and relevant deceptions.
Suspicious events detected by ShadowPlex Cloud are sent to the pertinent security ecosystem components for timely processing, containment, and remediation. Prebuilt integrations are available with:
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- IT Service Management (ITSM)
- Firewall platforms, EDR platforms, NOC platforms, etc.
Furthermore, ShadowPlex Cloud offers APIs to all of its facilities so that the Deception Engine can be orchestrated from SIEM, SOAR, Incident Response (IR) and Security Operations Center (SOC) environments in a DevSecOps fashion. Additionally, ShadowPlex Cloud can be delivered from Acalvio’s SOC2 compliant Public Cloud instances, client’s Cloud instances or through Acalvio’s MSSP partners.
Source: acalvio.com/news/
