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Fidelis Deception® vs Acalvio ShadowPlex

Exposing Attackers Before They Strike 

Fidelis Deception®: High-Fidelity Detection with Rich Investigation Context

Modern attackers rely on stolen credentials, reconnaissance, and lateral movement to bypass traditional defences. Security teams need high-confidence detections backed by rich investigation context to uncover attacks early and stop threats before they reach critical assets.

By using realistic decoys, breadcrumbs, false credentials, and attack surfaces across endpoints, Active Directory, cloud, and network environments, Fidelis Deception® expands active cyber protection. Fidelis links deception events with endpoint, network, and threat intelligence telemetry when integrated with the Fidelis Elevate® platform. This provides analysts with the context they need to examine attacks, verify malicious activity, and initiate response.

Acalvio ShadowPlex is an AI-powered deception platform that uses honeytokens and decoys in IT, OT, cloud, and identity settings to identify lateral movement, credential theft, and reconnaissance. Additionally, it connects with current security technologies for response and investigation.

Capability
Fidelis Deception®
Acalvio ShadowPlex
Deception Coverage
Deploys deception across endpoints, Active Directory, credentials, servers, cloud, and network environments, helping security teams detect attacker activity throughout the attack lifecycle.
Primarily focuses on deception for network, cloud, and identity environments, providing comparatively narrow coverage across enterprise attack surfaces.
Active Directory Protection
Protects Active Directory with deceptive users, groups, computers, domain controllers, SPNs, trusts, and other AD objects, helping analysts detect identity attacks before attackers reach critical assets.
Provides Active Directory deception capabilities but with less emphasis on comprehensive protection across a broad range of native AD objects.
Credential Deception
Plants realistic credentials, browser artifacts, mapped drives, RDP sessions, SSH keys, and application secrets that immediately expose credential theft attempts, helping security teams detect lateral movement early.
Supports credential deception with fewer documented deception artifacts, providing less visibility into credential abuse.
Deception Artifacts
Uses deceptive artifacts including Canary files/tokens, credentials, browser artifacts, mapped drives, SSH keys, and application secrets to expose unauthorized access and attacker activity early.
Uses honeytokens, deceptive credentials, files, HoneyPaths, and other deceptive artifacts to detect attacker interaction.
Endpoint Deception
Deploys lightweight endpoint deception artifacts that detect attacker interaction without affecting production systems, enabling earlier detection of compromised endpoints.
Supports endpoint deception but places greater emphasis on deception lures than extensive endpoint artifact coverage.
Lateral Movement Detection
Detects credential harvesting, privilege escalation, remote administration, and lateral movement using distributed deception assets, helping analysts stop attacks before ransomware deployment.
Detects lateral movement through deception engagement, with comparatively less emphasis on broad deception coverage across multiple attack techniques.
Attack Path Visibility
Maps attacker movement across users, endpoints, identities, and attack paths, helping analysts understand how an attack progresses.
Provides attack path visualization and deception alerts, helping analysts track attacker activity and understand attack progression.
Threat Investigation
Provides thorough evidence, including attacker interactions, compromised credentials, impacted assets, and attack timelines. Sandbox integration can also support analysis of files left or accessed within capable decoys and provide visibility into attacker TTPs, helping analysts expedite investigations and responses.
Presents less thorough evidence for incident analysis, however it does include investigation data regarding deception instances.
MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
Helps analysts better understand attacker activity and enhance threat hunting by directly connecting deception events to MITRE ATT&CK methods.
Supports ATT&CK-based detection mapping, with comparatively less emphasis on investigation workflows built around ATT&CK context.
Automated Response
Reduces attacker dwell time by automating containment and response activities through integration with third-party security solutions and Fidelis Elevate® XDR.
Supports automated workflows through integrations, requiring additional tools for broader response.
Native XDR Integration
Provides unified visibility, investigation, and response throughout the environment by natively integrating with Fidelis Network®, Endpoint®, and Deception® under Fidelis Elevate®.
Has a less integrated native investigative experience because it depends on interactions with external security solutions for more extensive detection and response.
Deployment Flexibility
Helps businesses adjust to changing infrastructure by supporting scalable deception across distributed customer deployments for on-premises, virtual, cloud, and hybrid deployments, with support for both emulated and RealOS decoys.
Supports cloud and hybrid deployments with scalable deception, including both emulated and RealOS decoys, with deployment capabilities that can be tailored to the organization's architecture and platform configuration.

Designed for Enterprise Security

Fidelis Deception® helps security teams detect identity attacks, credential theft, and lateral movement early with realistic deception and high-confidence alerts.

Why Organizations Rely on Fidelis

Fast Post-Breach Detection  

Customers identify attacks 9 times faster than with traditional solutions.

Extensive Threat Tracking

Over 6.7 million high-severity malware threats and 16,000 critical vulnerability attempts detected year-to-date.

Complete Network Insight 

Watches all network traffic, ports, and protocols to spot hidden threats.

Automated Response 

Alerts are automatically reviewed and connected, saving time by cutting down on false positives.

See the Impact 

See why organizations choose Fidelis Deception® to detect attackers earlier, reduce false positives, and accelerate threat response:

  • Deploy realistic deception across endpoints, Active Directory, credentials, cloud, and networks by placing realistic decoys, breadcrumbs, fake accounts, and data across your environment. This lures adversaries into revealing their presence and tactics early, giving your team the advantage to act quickly and confidently.
  • Deploy realistic decoys that replicate critical systems, applications, and services across your environment. They blend seamlessly into production to attract attackers searching for valuable targets, and any interaction instantly exposes anomalous behavior with high-confidence alerts. Supports both emulated and RealOS decoys.
  • Protect Active Directory with deceptive users, computers, credentials, and other AD objects to expose identity attacks.
  • Reduce alert fatigue with high-confidence alerts that trigger only when attackers interact with deception assets.
  • Investigate faster with attacker interaction data, attack path visibility, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
  • Accelerate response with native Fidelis Elevate® XDR integration, combining Deception, Network, Endpoint, threat intelligence, and automated response.
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