Intrusion detection with near-zero false positives
Deception-as-a-service on the Labyrinth platform — decoys and breadcrumbs across IT and OT that turn any attacker interaction into a high-fidelity alert. Test us in your next red team exercise.
Deception-as-a-service from Passeca deploys decoys and breadcrumbs across your IT and OT environments. Because no legitimate user has reason to touch a decoy, interactions with decoys are strong indicators of potentially suspicious activity — delivering near-zero false positives and catching the malware-free intrusions and lateral movement that EDR and SIEM miss.
What is deception technology?
Deception technology places realistic decoys, breadcrumbs and lures across an environment — fake credentials, shares, servers and services that look and behave like real assets. The defining property is asymmetry: legitimate users and processes have no reason to interact with them, so interactions with decoys are strong indicators of potentially suspicious activity. Legitimate scanning or testing can also trigger alerts.
This makes deception exceptionally high-fidelity. Where EDR and SIEM must distinguish malicious from benign behaviour amid enormous volume, deception starts from the opposite premise — a decoy has no legitimate users, so touching one is a strong signal.
Why it catches what EDR and SIEM miss
Deception's strength is exactly where conventional detection is weakest.
| EDR / SIEM | Deception | |
|---|---|---|
| Malware-free intrusion | May be difficult to detect | Can detect interactions with decoys |
| Living-off-the-land abuse | May be difficult to detect | Can detect interactions with decoys |
| Lateral movement | May be difficult to detect | Can detect interactions with decoys |
| Credential theft / abuse | May be difficult to detect | Can detect interactions with decoys |
| False-positive rate | High | Near-zero |
Who needs deception as a service?
- You face stealthy intrusions — malware-free, living-off-the-land attacks that evade EDR.
- You operate OT / SCADA where agentless, air-gap-capable detection is essential.
- Your SOC is drowning in false positives and needs high-fidelity signal.
- You want to prove detection value in your next red team exercise.
From design to automated response
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Design
We map your environment and design a deception deployment — decoys, breadcrumbs and lures that match your real assets so an attacker cannot tell the difference. Because no legitimate user has reason to touch a decoy, interactions with decoys are strong indicators of potentially suspicious activity.
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Deploy
Decoys and breadcrumbs are placed across IT, and — uniquely — across OT and SCADA environments, agentless and air-gap capable. Deployment for an SMB can take as little as two hours.
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Detect
When an attacker, malware-free intrusion or lateral movement touches a decoy, deception generates a high-fidelity alert — near-zero false positives, because a decoy has no legitimate users.
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Respond
Detection triggers automated response — threat-indicator generation, host isolation and incident logging — feeding PassIRP and PassAI-Guard so the SOC contains the threat immediately.
Labyrinth + PassIRP / PassAI-Guard
Deception alerts feed the same SOC stack as the rest of your detection — a decoy hit triggers immediate containment.
The service runs on Labyrinth — agentless decoys and breadcrumbs for IT and OT, multitenant with RBAC for SOC use. Alerts generate threat indicators and flow into PassIRP, where PassAI-Guard enriches and triages them and SOAR playbooks can isolate the offending host automatically. See the Labyrinth partnership page for more on the platform.
How long and how much?
Deception can be deployed fast — for an SMB in as little as two hours, with low ongoing maintenance. Larger and OT environments take longer to design. The service runs continuously once live.
Which compliance requirements this supports
- ISO 27001 — monitoring and intrusion-detection controls with high-fidelity detection.
- NIS2 — incident detection for essential entities, including OT operators.
- DORA — detection capability for financial entities' ICT systems.
Deception-as-a-service, answered
The questions organisations ask about deploying deception as a managed service.
What is deception-as-a-service?
What is Labyrinth?
Why does deception have near-zero false positives?
Can deception catch attacks that EDR and SIEM miss?
Does deception work in OT and SCADA environments?
How do we test whether deception actually works?
Test us in your next red team exercise.
The cleanest proof of deception is a red team. If their lateral movement touches a decoy, we detect it. Book a consultation and we will scope a deception deployment — then put it to the test.
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