Cyber Startup Frenetik Launches with Patented Deception Technology That Bets Against the AI Arms Race

While most cybersecurity companies pour resources into AI models, massive compute, hoovering up all the data, and enhanced analytics to detect and prevent threats, Frenetik, a Maryland cyber startup, is betting on something simpler: making sure attackers don’t know what defenders know.

The company emerged today with a fundamentally different approach using novel cyber deception and a newly issued U.S. patent to back it.

“The industry has turned cybersecurity into a compute and analysis war,” said founder Hans Ismirnioglou. “Bigger models, more data, faster analysis. But you can’t out-compute or out-analyze an adversary forever. We’re not trying to. We’re exploiting information asymmetry.”

Traditional deception tools deploy fake systems, wait for attackers to find them, and hope they interact. Frenetik’s patented “Deception In-Use” technology (U.S. Patent 12,463,981 – “Systems and Methods for Counter-Reconnaissance in Cloud Infrastructure to Disrupt Adversarial Targeting”) takes a different ...