Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Cybersense.

Cybersense is the alarm system for your IT: a deception-based IT early warning system for attack and intrusion detection. The solution makes attackers visible as early as the phase of the attack—even before an intrusion causes actual damage. To do this, Cybersense relies on custom-built lures, traps, and decoys to detect reconnaissance and lateral movement at an early stage. 

Many security solutions protect the perimeter or individual endpoints. What is often missing is a reliable view of what is already happening within the environment being protected. Cybersense closes precisely this gap: highly stealthy reconnaissance activities, lateral movements, and attacks without known signatures become visible early on—where traditional setups often react too late. 

Cybersense has two core components: comprehensive sensors are placed at strategic points within the IT environment to detect the early attack phase. Additionally, Cybersense places specifically prepared information and systems within the customer’s IT infrastructure, based on a complementary approach that operates independently of existing security systems. If an attacker accesses these during early reconnaissance or lateral movement, a highly relevant detection signal is immediately generated. This makes an attack visible at a very early stage—before any damage occurs. The deception elements are tailored to the specific customer environment and strategically positioned.

Lures—also known as breadcrumbs—are inconspicuously placed passive clues, entries, or artifacts. They are attractive to attackers and appear during manual searches or in the output of hacker tools. In normal operation, they have no productive function. Decoys are specially prepared systems or services that appear to be real targets but serve solely for detection purposes. Together, they ensure that attackers are identified early on, rather than moving undetected within the network. 

Among other things, Cybersense detects reconnaissance, lateral movement, suspicious access to identities and systems, credential abuse, and typical patterns of modern attacks. This also includes activities without known signatures, which are easily overlooked in traditional solutions. Detected activities include scans, AD-related reconnaissance, and privilege escalation patterns such as credential harvesting or Kerberoasting. 

Yes. Cybersense is not only based on known signatures but also on the attacker’s behavior within your environment. This allows zero-day-related activities, living-off-the-land techniques, and highly stealthy attacks to be detected early on. Even advanced, APT-like tactics are thus addressed at a very early stage. 

Cybersense is more than a single lure system. The solution combines lures, traps, decoys, identity, and network sensors into a customer-specific deception strategy. This allows attackers to be detected not only late in the game, but already during the early reconnaissance and lateral movement phases. Added to this are strategic placement, open integrations, and, upon request, a managed service. 

Cybersense not only delivers its technology in the form of its software stack but also deploys it at strategic points within the customer’s IT and IoT environment. The deception elements are custom-built to integrate seamlessly into the customer’s network. 

SIEM, EDR, XDR, and NDR cover important but distinct areas—such as logs, endpoints, or network traffic. Cybersense complements these solutions with deception-based early detection directly within the environment being protected. The result: less noise, more context, and highly relevant alerts with clear actionable guidance. 

No. Cybersense is designed so that production systems are not disrupted. The approach is purely observational, passive, and non-intrusive, and can be implemented during ongoing operations—without interfering with the existing production IT environment. 

Yes. Cybersense operates agentlessly on production clients and servers. This reduces operational overhead, avoids additional load, and makes deployment particularly attractive even in heterogeneous legacy environments. No additional agent layer is created on production systems. 

The deception-based approach significantly reduces false positives because alerts are only triggered when there is targeted interaction with the Cybersense deception elements (prepared information such as breadcrumbs, lures, traps, and decoys). This ensures a small number of highly relevant alerts and noticeably reduces the workload on internal security teams 

Yes. Cybersense makes activities related to identities, Active Directory, reconnaissance, and lateral movement visible. Especially in the early stages of an attack, this generates signals that other security solutions often fail to provide. This includes sensors in areas related to AD and Netlogon, as well as the detection of scans. 

Cybersense can be deployed in traditional enterprise networks as well as in hybrid infrastructures, private and public cloud environments, and in sensitive IT and OT-related areas. Even segmented or legacy environments can be secured incrementally. Similarly, container, IoT, and OT-related scenarios can be incorporated into the deception strategy.

Cybersense is designed for rapid time-to-value. Implementation is typically possible within a few days. Deployment can begin in specific, particularly critical areas, network segments, or locations and then be gradually expanded or scaled up. 

In the event of an alert, the signals are analyzed by our SOC , , evaluated, and enriched with context . With the Managed Service, your team receives not only an alert but also clear recommendations for action, direct notification, and support for containment and response. Additionally, automated responses can be triggered via third-party providers—such as isolating endpoints, locking user accounts, or controlling firewall and NAC functions. 

Yes. Cybersense is available as a Managed Security Service. A team of experts handles operations, monitoring, analysis, triage, and ongoing optimization—up to 24/7, depending on the service level. This is supplemented by health checks, maintenance, and, in an emergency, immediate notification by phone. 

Yes. Thanks to a small number of highly relevant alerts and the Managed Service, Cybersense can be used efficiently even with limited internal resources. This relieves the burden on internal teams and provides additional security without the need to build a large and costly in-house SOC.

Yes. All data remains within the customer’s infrastructure. For the managed service, only the necessary operational data from the decoys is sent to the SOC. In the event of an alert, the SOC is notified directly. The only requirement is secure access to the Cybersense management interface—not to the rest of the customer’s environment.

Yes. Cybersense can be integrated into existing SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, monitoring, and security environments. Alarms can be received, prioritized, and used for automated responses. In this way, Cybersense enhances the value of existing security solutions rather than replacing them. 

Yes. MITRE has established several de facto standards in cybersecurity. For example, Cybersense classifies its alerts according to the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix into tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Additionally, Cybersense follows the MITRE Engage framework when developing customer-specific deception strategies. 

Cybersense is particularly suitable for organizations with high security requirements and complex infrastructures. These include, among others, KRITIS, energy, financial services, industry and logistics, public administration, universities, healthcare, and companies with distributed or historically evolved IT landscapes. Cybersense is particularly effective where high criticality, heterogeneous infrastructures, and low tolerance for false positives converge. 

Cybersense supports security and compliance initiatives where traceable attack detection, short response times, and robust security evidence are critical. The solution does not replace compliance measures but provides a key technical component for detection, incident response, and resilient operational processes. 

Cybersense is a German provider headquartered in Dortmund. Development, service, and operations are focused on data protection, short communication channels, and deployment in demanding enterprise and KRITIS environments. Development and service delivery are carried out by in-house teams based in Germany 

Cybersense is developed exclusively in Germany. Service, contact persons, and operating models are also designed for service delivery from Germany – Made in Germany. 

Cybersense combines a process patented in Germany with a customer-specific deception strategy. Lures, traps, decoys, and other sensors are specifically adapted to the respective IT environment and strategically placed. This results in early-triggering, high-quality alerts with clear actionable insights. 

Cybersense delivers not just technology, but a solution tailored to the specific customer environment. This includes the strategic placement of deception assets, integration into existing security processes, and, upon request, a managed service. In other words: Cybersense delivers not just software, but a turnkey intrusion detection system that quickly generates productive value and requires minimal internal effort. 

Cybersense combines identity, endpoint, and network deception into a holistic approach. As a result, attackers are not only detected at individual points but already during reconnaissance, lateral movement, and other early attack activities. At the same time, the solution operates agentlessly, passively, and without interfering with production systems.

Cybersense creates an additional layer of detection within the environment to be protected. The solution can be operated in parallel with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, and NDR, delivering context-rich signals and thereby increasing the effectiveness of existing security investments. Automated responses can also be triggered via existing infrastructures. 

Because Cybersense does not replace existing platforms, but rather specifically enhances them: with customized deception sensors, early intrusion detection, high-quality alerts, and low operational overhead. This transforms an existing security landscape into a significantly earlier, more focused, and operationally relevant detection system. 

Cybersense is openly integrable and designed for hybrid, historically evolved, and heterogeneous environments. The solution can be integrated with existing security stacks, ticketing systems, and monitoring processes while remaining flexible across network segments, zones, and locations. This makes Cybersense particularly attractive for companies that do not want rigid vendor-specific limitations. 

Cybersense is designed for early, reliable intrusion detection with minimal false positives. The approach supports demanding environments with high requirements for NIS2, ISO 27001, KRITIS, and resilient operational processes. Through on-premises deployment and high transparency, companies retain control at all times. 

In the managed service, customers receive technology and a team of experts from a single source. This includes direct notification, analysis, clear recommendations for action, and service models available 24/7. This relieves the burden on internal teams, shortens response times, and makes Cybersense quickly operational. 

Cybersense is a German provider with a GDPR-compliant approach. Systems and data remain under the customer’s control, while the Managed Service requires only secure access to the Cybersense management platform. This ensures digital sovereignty, transparency, and streamlined processes.

Yes. Cybersense can be launched specifically in critical areas, network segments, or zones and then expanded step by step. This enables a quick start with clear prioritization, high flexibility, and visible added value right from the start. 

Not off-the-shelf, but precisely tailored to your attack surface. Cybersense is not generic deception software that is simply rolled out. Lures, traps, and decoys are specifically designed based on your actual infrastructure, identities, movement patterns, and risks, strategically placed, and continuously monitored. This results not in a random deception surface, but in a precisely tailored early detection system that is based on the actual attack reality of your environment. 

The more complex the environment, the greater the impact of Cybersense. Especially in historically evolved, hybrid, and multi-vendor IT landscapes, Cybersense integrates seamlessly into existing security stacks, processes, network segments, and locations. Instead of forcing you into a rigid vendor ecosystem, Cybersense gives you the freedom to further develop your security architecture in a flexible, open, and independent manner. 

Cybersense enhances your security without you having to relinquish control. Development, support, and your point of contact are all based in Germany. The systems and data remain under your control, and the managed service requires only secure access to the Cybersense management platform. This is a compelling argument for data protection, governance, and transparent operations—especially for organizations that handle critical infrastructure, handle sensitive data, or operate in highly regulated industries. 

With Cybersense, you don’t get an anonymous platform, but genuine support from experts. Technology, sensors, priorities, and response protocols are jointly tailored to your infrastructure and security level. This accelerates implementation, simplifies operations, and ensures that the solution grows with your requirements, rather than forcing you into rigid standard processes. 

Cybersense truly shines where traceability, controllability, and robust response are mandatory. For organizations with requirements related to NIS2, ISO 27001, KRITIS, DORA, or MaRisk, Cybersense provides a robust technical foundation for early, context-rich attack detection, clearly prioritized alerts, and resilient security processes. This allows you to strengthen detection, incident response, and compliance-related accountability simultaneously—without compromising data protection or sovereignty. 

More than 20 by default—and virtually limitless thanks to a flexible framework. Cybersense comes with over 20 different lures and traps right out of the box. Even more important is the underlying framework: It can be flexibly expanded, customized, and tailored to new use cases. This means you don’t get a rigid product list, but rather a deception strategy that grows with your environment and risk profile. The platform supports a wide variety of deception elements—from digital artifacts to complete decoy systems. 

Yes—and that is precisely one of Cybersense’s major advantages. The solution operates in parallel with existing security solutions and integrates via API into SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, ticketing, monitoring, and security environments. Automated responses via existing infrastructures are also possible. Cybersense remains vendor-agnostic: no vendor lock-in, but rather open integration into heterogeneous environments—including existing security fabrics. 

More than can be squeezed into a rigid list. For security reasons, we do not publish the complete overview on the website. In a live demo, we’d be happy to show you specific examples and suitable use cases for your environment. By default, Cybersense already includes over 20 different lures and traps. Additionally, you can flexibly add further variants—from inconspicuous digital artifacts to complete decoy systems. This results not in a one-size-fits-all solution, but in a deception strategy that fits your infrastructure perfectly.