Shelly Kramer, managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research is joined by fellow analyst and frequent co-host Jo Peterson on the SecurityANGLE podcast for a conversation about deception technology, a strategy designed to attract cybercriminals away from an enterprise’s true assess and divert them to a decoy or trap, is gaining traction today.

The deception tech decoy mimics legitimate servers, applications, and data so that the criminal is tricked into believing that they have infiltrated and gained access to the enterprise's most important assets when, in reality, they have not. The strategy is employed to minimize damage and protect an organization's true assets. By populating the network with decoys, the onus is on adversaries to carry out an attack nearly perfectly flawlessly, without falling for any of the decoys and traps laid for them. Once a security team is alerted to their presence, they can analyze the behavior of the cyber attackers and use that intelligence to thwart their efforts.

We explored some of the vendors providing deception tech solutions, which include: Acalvio, Fortinet, Zscaler, Smokescreen, SentinelOne, Rapid7, Morphisec, and Cynet Systems.

There are myriad benefits to incorporating deception technology solutions into your security tech stack, so hang around for the conversation and learn more.