Acalvio Launches ShadowPlex AI Agent in Gemini Enterprise Marketplace

Acalvio brings agentic AI to deception engineering, enabling security teams to translate intent into deployable playbooks in minutes.

As AI-driven cyberattacks accelerate reconnaissance, credential abuse, and lateral movement, security teams face growing pressure to deploy defenses faster and more consistently. Designing effective deception strategies has traditionally required specialized expertise, creating a bottleneck for CISOs who need to scale detection across hybrid, cloud, and AI-enabled environments. The new ShadowPlex AI Agent from Acalvio removes that bottleneck by generating deception playbooks directly from natural language input.

What was announced

On September 29, 2026, Acalvio Technologies announced the launch of the ShadowPlex AI Agent in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace. The agent integrates with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise and allows security teams to describe a security objective in plain language and automatically generate a ready-to-deploy deception playbook.

Whether the objective is detecting lateral movement, disrupting AI-driven reconnaissance, identifying credential abuse, protecting privileged identities, or securing enterprise AI agents and AI-enabled infrastructure, the agent autonomously reasons through the requirement and produces a structured playbook ready for deployment through the ShadowPlex platform.

Security teams know what they want to detect, but translating that intent into effective deception deployments has traditionally required specialized expertise. The ShadowPlex AI Agent closes that gap by turning security objectives into actionable deception playbooks, allowing organizations to deploy deception with greater speed, consistency, and scale.

Why this matters

For CIOs, CISOs, IT directors, and procurement leaders, the ShadowPlex AI Agent addresses two converging challenges: defending against AI-powered adversaries and protecting rapidly expanding enterprise AI infrastructure. What previously required deep deception expertise can now be completed in minutes, enabling organizations to operationalize deception more quickly and at greater scale.

The agentic approach shortens the path from security intent to active detection controls, reducing dependency on scarce deception specialists and accelerating the deployment of preemptive defenses across identity systems, endpoints, and AI workloads.

Technical details

• Marketplace availability: Delivered through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace with integration into Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise.
• Natural language input: Security teams describe objectives in plain language; the agent produces a deception strategy, deployment plan, and playbook.
• Use cases: Lateral movement detection, credential abuse identification, privileged identity protection, disruption of AI-driven reconnaissance, and protection of enterprise AI agents.
• Enterprise coverage: On-premises infrastructure, cloud environments, identity systems, IT and OT networks, and enterprise AI infrastructure.
• Platform foundation: Playbooks deploy through the ShadowPlex 360 Deception platform with dynamic HoneyPaths and cloaking of production assets.
• Operational impact: Reduces deception design time from days to minutes and standardizes playbook consistency across the enterprise.

Softprom and Acalvio

Softprom is the official distributor of Acalvio. Enterprise customers can access ShadowPlex deception technology, deployment support, and consulting through Softprom.

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