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Acalvio ShadowPlex

110Judge labels

27First choices

18Negative labels

14 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

47% in Deception for enterprise buyers

Rank 2 of 94 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

4 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 42 labels there were negative.

What the models named instead of Acalvio ShadowPlex →

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.

Small business95 of 95

criticized challenger

In deception · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Acalvio ShadowPlex for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Deception technology	Security operations	9%	2 of 94	14%	42	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Acalvio ShadowPlex yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Acalvio ShadowPlex across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	3	5
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	2	0	4
Mistral Small	3	0	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	4	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	1	0	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct27 labels13

Paraphrase13 labels7

Comparative33 labels17not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels4

Scale-constrained9 labels3

Negative15 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 47 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Consistently ranked as a leader in GigaOm’s Radar Report (2023–2024)... stands out for its centralized Deception Farm architecture, cloud-native design, and AI-driven countermeasures” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Deception · comparative prompt · first choice

“I recommend requesting demos from Illusive Networks and Acalvio specifically, as they appear most focused on the mid-market segment.” MiniMax M2.5 · Deception · direct prompt · first choice

“If you want enterprise-scale automation with very low operational burden, Acalvio is the recognized leader.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Deception · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you want broad enterprise coverage, Acalvio and Attivo/SentinelOne are the strongest fits” Perplexity Sonar · Deception · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“look out for architectural red flags when evaluating active deception platforms (such as those from Acalvio, CounterCraft, or Fidelis Security)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · negative prompt · soft negative

“massive enterprise "deception grids" (such as Acalvio, Fidelis, or SentinelOne Attivo) are highly effective, they are cost-prohibitive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · budget prompt · soft negative

“this complexity often translates to higher pricing and more required administrative upkeep” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Deception · scale prompt · soft negative

“Overkill — designed for large enterprises with complex hybrid-cloud/OT environments” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Deception · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acalvio ShadowPlex, over the 110 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Acalvio ShadowPlex was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Thinkst Canary55 of 11020Compare →

Fidelis Deception32 of 1100Not among the top eight

Zscaler Deception30 of 1101Not among the top eight

Illusive Networks29 of 1102Compare →

Tracebit27 of 1104Compare →

CounterCraft27 of 1101Not among the top eight

SentinelOne Singularity27 of 1100Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiDeceptor21 of 1101Compare →

Attivo Networks17 of 1102Not among the top eight

FortiDeceptor17 of 1100Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Acalvio ShadowPlex. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 110 of the 110 answers that named Acalvio ShadowPlex and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acalvio.comYour site88

expertinsights.com61

guideflow.com52

linkedin.com49

devopsschool.com31

us.fitgap.com31

myhospitalnow.com28

g2.com27

sourceforge.net27

cybersecuritynews.com26

332 of the 420 domain citations in answers naming Acalvio ShadowPlex came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/best-deception-technology-companies61

acalvio.com/preemptive-security/competitive-intelligence-cyber-deception56

guideflow.com/blog/deception-technology-software50

linkedin.com/pulse/cyber-deception-technology-cisos-guide-choosing-right-anand-akela-zbmlc48

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-deception-technology-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison31

acalvio.com/agentic-ai-security/deception-technology-solutions-an-enterprise-buyers-framew30

cybersecuritynews.com/deception-tools26

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-honeypots-deception-tools-202626

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

acalvio.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Acalvio ShadowPlex takes 9% of first choices and Thinkst Canary takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “deception technology platform”

Position for “deception technology platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 20 a month (“acalvio shadowplex”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,358 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 663 · 15 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,109
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

4 ads · 2 image, 2 text · 3 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2024, as Acalvio Technologies, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year, 2 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 2 of 94 in deception

Segment leader

37%

Thinkst Canary

First choices: 27 across its categories
Named in: 110 answers
Its own site cited: in 110 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on acalvio.com

477

subdomains included

Content

344

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

19 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	117	31	2026-09-15	Deception, ITDR
Conference or event	52	8	2026-09-25	ITDR
Glossary or explainer	48	23	2026-09-13	Deception, ITDR
News or press	46	14	2026-09-29	Deception, ITDR
Report or ebook	38	8	2026-09-12	Deception, ITDR
Webinar or virtual event	27	4	2026-09-12	Deception, XDR
Case study	12	0	2024-09-26
Comparison	3	2	2026-09-21
Template or tool	1	1	2026-07-30

Most recent

2026-09-29Acalvio launches shadowplex ai agent in the gemini enterprise agent marketplace news or press
2026-09-25Falcon europe 2026 conference or event
2026-09-25Ians new york forum conference or event
2026-09-25Cisco live 2026 2 conference or event
2026-09-24Isa saudi automation conference 2026 conference or event
2026-09-21Ai security solutions preemptive defense vs reactive tools comparison

Events in person

Last twelve months

August 31, 2026 to September 3, 2026Fal.Con USA 2026Las Vegas · exhibited
August 6, 2026Shooting EventShooting Event · hosted
August 6, 2026Executive Leadership DinnerExecutive Leadership Dinner · hosted
August 5, 2026Shooting EventShooting Event · hosted
August 5, 2026Montecristo Cigar BarMontecristo Cigar Bar · hosted
August 4, 2026 to August 6, 2026Meet Cyber Deception Experts at Black Hat USA 2026 – Booth 8606, AI ZoneLas Vegas · exhibited
August 4, 2026Montecristo Cigar BarMontecristo Cigar Bar · hosted

As the event pages on acalvio.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page acalvio.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Acalvio ShadowPlex

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Acalvio ShadowPlex; a claim can dispute any of them.

Acalvio 16Acalvio Technologies 1Acalvio Technologies ShadowPlex 1

Follow Acalvio ShadowPlex

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Acalvio ShadowPlex is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: the deception platform built to operationalize 360 Deception at enterprise scale
acalvio.com
For: enterprise and government environments
acalvio.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Acalvio ShadowPlex's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: acalvio.com, acalvio.com/products, acalvio.com/resources/case-studies, acalvio.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Acalvio ShadowPlex by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Acalvio ShadowPlex is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Acalvio ShadowPlex, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Acalvio ShadowPlex is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Acalvio ShadowPlex is among the products AI models recommend first in Deception technology this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Deception technology standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.