Frenetik

Frenetik emerged from stealth in December 2025 with a cyber deception approach it calls “Deception In-Use,” built around a newly issued U.S. patent (No. 12,463,981) titled “Systems and Methods for Counter-Reconnaissance in Cloud Infrastructure to Disrupt Adversarial Targeting.” Instead of deploying static decoys and waiting for an attacker to stumble onto them, as traditional deception tools do, Frenetik continuously rotates the identities and resources an organization is actually using across Microsoft Entra (M365), AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises systems. Details of each rotation move through out-of-band channels accessible only to trusted parties, so an attacker working from reconnaissance gathered even a short time earlier gets routed toward decoys instead of live assets.

Founder Hans Ismirnioglou frames the bet as information asymmetry rather than a compute or detection-model arms race: if defenders can keep attackers uncertain which assets are currently real, the attacker’s prior reconnaissance loses value regardless of how sophisticated their tooling is. The company is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Frenetik is very early stage. It has disclosed no funding round, customer, or employee count, and its only public evidence is a single press release republished across trade outlets. The patent and underlying mechanism are real and distinct from static deception, but there is no independent test of how the rotation approach holds up against a determined, patient attacker, and the free community edition is the extent of what’s currently verifiable.