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llusive brought together top
cyber-attack specialists and
pioneering cyber technology
entrepreneurs with decades of
collective experience in cyber
warfare and cyber intelligence. It
was built to tackle what has been
a significant and urgent problem
for cybersecurity practitioners—
the challenge to stop Advanced
Persistent Threats (APTs) and
other advanced attacks that bypass
security controls and silently gain
access to organizations’ most risk-
sensitive and business-critical
digital assets.
Given the frequency of successful
targeted attacks, it decided not
to continue with old approaches
and expect to get different results.
A new approach is needed. Illusive
looks at the problem from the
perspective of the attacker and
exploits the attacker’s weakness.
As fire needs oxygen, attackers –
once they have found their way
into a network — need reliable
data that will lead them toward
their target. By saturating the
environment with deceptive
information, Illusive creates a
distorted reality that the attacker
cannot confidently navigate. It’s a
solution that disrupts the attacker’s
operations — without disrupting
yours. The company provides tools
that help security teams detect and
resolve advanced attacks, to prevent
cyber incidents from becoming
business crises.
Deceptions in Financial
Services
Financial institutions are one of
the most high-value targets for
attackers who “follow the money”
and those intent on systemic
disruption. Despite the vast
resources financial institutions
devote to cybersecurity, one
challenge has been especially
difficult to solve: the challenge to
detect and stop APTs before real
damage is done.
Deceptions in Healthcare
and Life Sciences
Whether your organization
provides healthcare services,
health insurance, or cutting-edge
medical devices and therapies,
health information systems have
become increasingly digital,
interconnected, and consumer-
driven. In the process, they’ve also
become attractive targets for data
theft, identity theft, and insurance
fraud and worse, as the recent
spate of ransomware attacks has
shown, cyber attacks on healthcare
institutions can also disrupt vital
services. The impact: loss of patient
trusts, significant financial losses,
regulatory scrutiny—and above all,
the risk to patient safety.
Deceptions in Legal
Services
Mergers and acquisitions, SEC
filings, corporate restructuring,
litigation, patent applications,
employee contracts—everything
important happen with legal
counsel. Law firms traditionally
have been underinvested in security
defences, so they are easy targets
for advanced cyber attackers. In
many cases, law firms are much
easier targets for attackers than the
firm’s clients themselves.
Deceptions in
Manufacturing
With relatively little PII and
payment data to protect, many
manufacturers have felt relatively
safe from the cross hairs of
attackers. However, cyber attackers
see things differently. With large
investments in Intellectual Property
(IP) and the evolution of Industry
4.0, manufacturers have become
attractive targets.
Today’s smart manufacturing
relies on connected networks
for manufacturing operations,
production asset management,
maintenance, and field service.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices
are critical components of smart
manufacturing processes for
collecting, aggregating, and
delivering data. Complex connected
networks and IoT devices—plus
extended supply chains—create vast
opportunities for attackers to make
their way in. Once embedded in the
network, it may take an attacker
weeks or month to find what they’re
Focusing On the Attacker than the Attack
Illusive Networks
Agile approach stops cyber attackers before they stop you.