Acalvio, an AI-powered preemptive cybersecurity company, announced on Tuesday 360 Deception, the next generation of cyber deception designed to break AI-driven attack automation. As autonomous adversaries operate at machine speed, traditional security controls struggle to keep pace. By incorporating 360 Deception into their existing technology stack, customers will be able to disrupt AI-driven threat campaigns and expose malicious intent before compromise occurs.
Agentic AI can autonomously run exploits at machine speed and has weaponized trust in identities. Breakout times have collapsed to minutes and seconds. When automation can probe, validate, and pivot faster than investigations can complete, the margin for reactive confirmation disappears. By the time suspicious activity is confirmed, lateral movement and privilege escalation are already underway.
360 Deception makes cyber defense dynamic and extends it to real assets. The platform creates a high-uncertainty environment that exposes attackers early by disrupting the stable ground truth that automated attack tools depend on.
Key capabilities include dynamic orchestration of decoys and honeytokens across the 360 Deception fabric, creating a high-uncertainty environment that exposes attackers during reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement. The approach makes real assets appear deceptive while rendering deceptive assets indistinguishable from production systems, removing the stable ground truth that attackers rely on.
It disrupts attacker decision automation at the point where trust is established, forcing exposure and diversion while limiting the impact of intrusion attempts. The system steers both human and AI-driven adversaries into controlled false paths, revealing intent early and slowing attacker progress through the environment. It also supports simple deployment and operation, allowing organizations to implement preemptive defense that keeps pace with modern AI-assisted attacks.
Echoing this urgency, Ram Varadarajan, co-founder and CEO of Acalvio Technologies, noted, “AI-assisted and Agentic AI intrusions have compressed response timelines to the point where reactive defense is structurally late. Security teams are still looking for anomalies while attackers operate inside trusted systems. 360 Deception changes the control point by destabilizing attacker automation. By corrupting what AI can confidently trust, we force exposure before privilege escalation or domain compromise.”
360 Deception has already been battle-tested. During the U.S. Navy’s Cyber Resilient Systems Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, a competitive evaluation operating under the military’s new ‘assume you are compromised’ standard, Acalvio was named the first-prize winner. Evaluated against realistic, sophisticated intrusion scenarios, Acalvio outperformed conventional controls by not only surfacing malicious intent but also actively degrading attacker performance. Delivering 100% true positives and denial of attacker objectives, 360 Deception proved its unique ability to halt automation-driven intrusions at the point of compromise.
Reactive defense is no longer sufficient in this new age of AI. Preemptive defense that both generates early threat detection and actively disrupts attacks is now a requirement. 360 Deception delivers this capability through an intuitive, easy-to-use platform that doesn’t burden security teams. It represents the next generation of deception engineered to break AI automation.
