This whitepaper explains how deception technology, long viewed as expensive and complex, can now be practical for organizations beyond large enterprises. It describes deception as planting realistic decoys such as files, credentials, users, and network hosts that attackers inevitably interact with once they breach defenses, producing high confidence alerts with virtually no false positives. While standalone deception platforms are often costly and difficult to manage, the paper argues that smaller teams struggle most with added tools and consoles. It presents a new approach where deception is built directly into a unified XDR platform, removing the need for separate deployment, management, or cost. By integrating deception with prevention, detection, investigation, and automated response,

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