Undetected Lateral Movement
Expose hidden attacker movement before it turns a small breach into a full-scale compromise.
The Challenge
Attackers don’t break everything at once, they quietly move sideways until it’s too late.
Once attackers gain initial access, they rarely stop at a single compromised system. Instead, they use lateral movement techniques to navigate the internal network, escalate privileges, and locate high-value data and systems. This stage of the attack often blends into legitimate traffic, making undetected lateral movement one of the most dangerous phases of a breach.
Security teams struggle because lateral movement frequently relies on legitimate credentials, built-in administrative tools, and encrypted traffic. These behaviors look normal to many monitoring systems, allowing attackers to operate quietly inside the network while mapping infrastructure and preparing for larger attacks.
Without effective lateral movement detection, organizations may only discover the breach after data exfiltration, ransomware deployment, or operational disruption has already occurred.
Our solution
Detect and disrupt lateral movement before attackers reach critical assets.
Fidelis Elevate® combines network detection, endpoint visibility, and deception capabilities to expose attacker behavior inside the network. By correlating network traffic, endpoint activity, and deceptive engagement signals, Fidelis helps security teams detect lateral movement earlier and respond before attackers escalate the attack.
- Deep Network Visibility: Fidelis Network provides inspection across ports and protocols, enabling detection of suspicious east-west traffic patterns inside the network.
- Behavior-Based Lateral Movement Detection: Network and endpoint analytics help identify abnormal credential use, internal reconnaissance, and privilege escalation attempts.
- Deception-Driven Detection: Fidelis Deception deploys decoys, breadcrumbs, and fake credentials that lure attackers and trigger high-confidence alerts when they attempt lateral movement.
- High-Confidence Alerts with Reduced Noise: Deception interactions generate clear signals that help analysts prioritize real threats instead of chasing false positives.
- Integrated Investigation and Response: Fidelis Elevate correlates network, endpoint, and deception signals to help analysts understand attacker paths and respond faster across environments.
Why Now?
Undetected lateral movement is turning minor breaches into major incidents.
48
minutes is the average breakout time attackers take to move laterally after initial compromise, showing how quickly adversaries can spread across systems once inside the network.
22%
of breaches start with stolen credentials, enabling attackers to authenticate as legitimate users and move laterally across enterprise systems undetected.
11 days
is the global median attacker dwell time in 2025, giving adversaries enough time to explore environments and expand access through lateral movement.
Expose Hidden Lateral Movement with Deception-Enhanced NDR
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