

Forward-leaning and mature clients can also benefit from the added value from deception platforms. Pete Shoard, senior director analyst, Gartner, said in the report: “Security and risk management leaders who want to develop a threat detection initiative can invest in deception platforms as a low-cost and high-impact complement (or more rarely as a replacement) for SIEM, EDR and NDR tools offering high-fidelity sensors. This consumes the attacker’s time and resources and forces them to reveal their techniques, tactics, and procedures, ultimately giving security teams complete control. These decoys intercept sophisticated attackers and divert them to a fictitious environment that mimics the organization’s actual systems. “Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.9 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.4% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.” 2 TrapX’s Deception platform, DeceptionGridTM 7.0, shifts the economic burden of cybersecurity to the attackers by using decoys, or “traps”, to trick attackers into believing they are executing a successful attack. TrapX, which leverages next-generation deception technology to provide real-time breach detection and prevention, was named in the Deception Platforms category. TrapX Security, the global leader in Deception-based cyber defense solutions, was identified as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2020.
