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What is 360 Deception?

360 Deception is a new category of cyber deception designed to break AI attack automation. Unlike traditional deception that relies mainly on isolated decoys or honeypots, 360 Deception creates a high-uncertainty environment that disrupts the stable ground truth attackers depend on. It does this by combining dynamic decoys, honeytokens, evolving deceptive paths, and techniques that make deceptive assets appear production-real while making real assets appear deceptive. Acalvio’s platform delivers this approach across identity, endpoints, cloud, network, and cyber-physical environments to expose

How is 360 Deception different from traditional honeypots?

Traditional honeypots rely mainly on isolated decoys that attackers may detect or route around. 360 Deception goes further by creating a high-uncertainty environment across the attack surface. It combines dynamic decoys, honeytokens, evolving deceptive paths, and techniques that make deceptive assets appear production-real while making real assets appear deceptive. This makes reconnaissance less reliable, increases attacker uncertainty, and exposes malicious intent earlier.

How does 360 Deception Break AI attack automation?

360 Deception breaks AI attack automation by disrupting the stable ground truth automated attacks depend on. Instead of allowing attackers to probe a consistent environment, it introduces dynamic decoys, deceptive credentials, and evolving HoneyPaths that corrupt the map adversaries use to validate targets, credentials, and movement paths. This forces exposure during reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement before attackers can escalate access or achieve their objectives.

What are HoneyPaths in 360 Deception?

HoneyPaths are deceptive paths that guide attackers toward controlled, instrumented routes instead of real attack paths. In 360 Deception, HoneyPaths evolve over time as part of Dynamic Deception, making yesterday’s map unreliable today. This helps expose adversaries earlier, slows lateral movement, and gives defenders higher-confidence signals tied to attacker behavior rather than generic anomalies.

What proof supports 360 Deception?

Acalvio’s 360 Deception approach has been validated through both operational testing and analyst recognition. In the U.S. Navy’s Cyber Resilient Systems Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, Acalvio delivered 100% true positives and denied 80% of attacker objectives. Gartner also identified Acalvio as the company to beat in AI-powered cyber deception, a recognition distinct from its earlier Gartner mention in preemptive cybersecurity.

What is Deception-based Preemptive Cybersecurity?

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.

Why do organizations need Preemptive Cybersecurity?

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.

What are Honeytokens and Honeytoken Accounts?

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.