Acalvio Technologies, Inc. is a private cybersecurity company focused on AI-powered preemptive defense through cyber deception. Its approach is built to expose and disrupt malicious activity before attacks escalate, with coverage spanning identity, IT, OT, cloud, and cyber-physical environments. The company centers its positioning on breaking attacker trust during reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement rather than waiting for post-compromise confirmation.
Acalvio Technologies, Inc. organizes its portfolio around the ShadowPlex platform and its newer 360 Deception model. Across the portfolio, it combines deception assets, honeytokens, deceptive credentials, and automated analysis to generate high-confidence detections and accelerate response. The company supports deployment across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and service-provider environments, giving customers flexibility in how they operationalize preemptive cybersecurity.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Acalvio Technologies, Inc. delivers deception-driven capabilities for early threat detection, identity protection, cloud defense, and adversary-focused intelligence. Its platform uses AI to recommend, deploy, and refresh deception artifacts such as decoys, honeytokens, deceptive credentials, and HoneyPaths so security teams can surface attacker intent with less noise than conventional alert streams. The company also supports agentless deployment patterns in cloud environments through native cloud APIs.
Acalvio Technologies, Inc. is designed to work with existing security operations tooling rather than replace it. Its integrations span SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, directory, and network control systems, enabling verified deception events to feed downstream investigation and response workflows. Verified integrations and ecosystem tie-ins include Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection, Splunk, IBM QRadar, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, VMware Carbon Black, Cisco ISE, Sumo Logic, ArcSight, and NetWitness.
Products and Services
- 360 Deception: A three-vector deception framework that detects, diverts, and degrades AI-assisted and agentic attacks by changing what attackers can trust across the intrusion path.
- Agentic AI Runtime: Acalvio Technologies, Inc.’s offering for protecting agentic AI systems and workflows within its preemptive cybersecurity model.
- ShadowPlex Advanced Threat Defense: An AI-powered deception product for early detection of APT-style and AI-driven attacks, with emphasis on reconnaissance, lateral movement, and privilege escalation across enterprise environments.
- ShadowPlex Identity Protection: A deception-powered ITDR offering that maps identity attack paths and detects credential misuse, lateral movement, and privilege abuse using honeytokens and deceptive accounts.
- ShadowPlex Cloud Security: An agentless multi-cloud security product that applies deception and honeytokens across IAM and cloud-native services using native cloud APIs.
- ShadowPlex Targeted Threat Intel: A targeted threat intelligence offering that uses external-facing decoys and attacker engagement to generate actionable indicators, credentials, infrastructure data, and attack-pattern insight.
- ShadowPlex Preemptive Cybersecurity Platform: The company’s unified platform foundation, built on 360 Deception, that connects identity, cloud, IT, and OT protection with shared deployment, detection, and response architecture.
- Honeytokens for CrowdStrike: A solution that extends CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection with deception-based honeytoken accounts and credentials for earlier identity threat detection and response.
Target Customers
Acalvio Technologies, Inc. serves midsize to Fortune 500 enterprises as well as government agencies. Its platform is aimed at organizations that need earlier visibility into stealthy attacks, credential misuse, insider activity, ransomware staging, and hybrid-environment lateral movement without adding heavy operational friction.
The company has visible go-to-market alignment with public sector, financial services, and healthcare organizations, and it also addresses industrial and OT-heavy environments. Its fit is strongest for security teams operating across hybrid identity, on-premises infrastructure, and multi-cloud estates that want high-fidelity signals integrated into existing SOC and incident response workflows.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Acalvio Technologies, Inc. has AWS Marketplace presence with listings for ShadowPlex offerings, including Advanced Threat Defense and Cloud Security, supporting SaaS and private-offer procurement.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Acalvio Technologies, Inc. has Google Cloud Marketplace presence for ShadowPlex and has also promoted its ShadowPlex Preemptive Cyberdefense Agent for Google Cloud and Gemini Enterprise workflows.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Acalvio Technologies, Inc. has a Microsoft marketplace listing for Acalvio ShadowPlex and supports Microsoft-centric deployments through integrations with Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel.
Key People
- Ram Varadarajan: Co-founder, CEO
- Raj Gopalakrishna: Co-founder, Chief Architect
- Sreenivas Gukal: Co-founder, Chief Product Officer
- Anand Akela: Chief Marketing Officer
- Chad Scrupps: VP, Worldwide Sales & Channels
- Srikanth Geddada: VP, Business Development
- Suresh “Surra” Yanamadala: Field CTO
- Ralph Kahn: GM Federal
- Suril Desai: VP, Detection Engineering
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Employees: Approximately 80-100
- Annual Revenue: $15M-$19M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner AI Vendor Race: Acalvio Is the Company to Beat in AI-powered Advanced Cyber Deception — Company to Beat. 2025 Gartner Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators in Preemptive Cybersecurity — Tech Innovator. 2023 Gartner Emerging Tech: Security — Tech Innovators in Automated Moving Target Defense — Tech Innovator.
