SaaS Cyber Deception and Attack-Surface Obfuscation for High-Fidelity Threat Detection

Aves Netsec is a Finnish cybersecurity product company founded in 2014 by Simo Kohonen and headquartered in Espoo. It builds cyber network deception and detection software for enterprise security teams that want early, high-confidence warning of intruders already operating inside their perimeter. The stated customer base spans organisations hardening internal environments and service providers monitoring multiple client estates, with particular emphasis on teams struggling with alert fatigue from noisy conventional monitoring tooling.

The company's platform, Defused, is the successor to its earlier PreSploit product and is delivered as software-as-a-service. An operator downloads and configures a virtual machine on a local or cloud network, and that appliance automatically distributes deception decoys across the surrounding address space. Decoys report attacker interaction over a one-way connection to a cloud-hosted dashboard that handles fleet management, alerting and configuration. Setup is documented as taking under thirty minutes per network.

Beyond conventional decoys, Defused supports exploit decoys: deliberately planted fake attack surface mimicking a specific vulnerability, letting defenders observe whether and how an emerging weakness is being targeted in their own environment. Pairing deception with moving-target-defence techniques to obfuscate the real attack surface, the approach suits IT, OT and IoT segments where agent-based monitoring is not viable. A free Community tier lowers the adoption barrier for smaller teams.