Case Study: US-Based Media Company frustrates red team attacks with Illusive

US-Based Media Company - Customer Case Study

US-Based Media Company was navigating a media merger and needed to avoid inheriting hidden threats from the acquired company’s infrastructure, while also strengthening defenses against insider threats. The company used Illusive Networks as part of its security stack, and its presence repeatedly frustrated red team and penetration testing efforts during the acquisition due diligence process.

Illusive Networks deployed deception technology that disrupted red team activities by generating false targets and misleading attackers, making it difficult for testers to proceed and prompting requests to turn it off. As a result, the parent company chose to keep Illusive in place and expand the deployment across its own infrastructure, rather than replacing it with the planned monitoring architecture.