AI SECURITY WORKBENCH · ATTACK PATH ANALYSIS
Turn connected evidence into defensible attack paths.
Most security reports stop at individual findings. Attack Path Analysis asks which findings, identities, permissions, workflows, runtime observations, code relationships, and control weaknesses combine into a supported route toward consequential impact.
Grounded where we know. Explicit where we infer.
Four-stage path analysis
01
Correlate the evidence
Connect target-, environment-, code-, runtime-, identity-, authority-, partner-, and system-specific evidence without treating proximity or correlation as proof of a path.
02
Construct candidate paths
Model plausible earlier, intermediate, or later steps as explicit hypotheses. Record required preconditions, supporting precedent, confidence, and missing evidence. Inference remains distinct from grounded fact.
03
Challenge and validate the path
Test evidence grounding, identity and authority assumptions, path sequence, ATT&CK mapping, reachability, preconditions, alternative explanations, and claimed consequence.
04
Prioritize remediation chokepoints
Identify the controls, permissions, approvals, boundaries, components, or relationships that interrupt the most consequential supported paths. Define remediation ownership and retest conditions.
Graph-backed path analysis
From connected evidence to qualified paths.
Attack Path Analysis combines fragmented security observations with system, identity, authority, code, runtime, and control context to construct evidence-qualified paths and structured remediation outputs.
Grounded where we know. Explicit where we infer.
Grounded path steps
Each grounded step references target-, environment-, code-, runtime-, identity-, authority-, partner-, or system-specific evidence.
Explicit hypotheses
Possible earlier, intermediate, or later steps remain clearly labeled as inferred, confidence-scored, and dependent on stated preconditions.
What Attack Path Analysis returns
Scope note
Attack Path Analysis performs defensive analysis of supported security paths at the system, identity, authority, code, runtime, tactic, technique, and procedure levels. It does not generate exploit code, credential material, payloads, or step-by-step intrusion instructions.
Claim states
Not every connected route has the same claim state.
Code-risk path
A static or configuration-derived route requiring broader context.
Authority path
A route showing effective access and action capability.
Candidate abuse path
A plausible misuse route requiring validation.
Candidate attack path
A possible path supported by some target-specific context.
Grounded attack path
A path whose material steps are supported by system-specific evidence.
Validated attack path
A grounded path whose sequence, preconditions, and consequence have been challenged and supported.
Reproduced attack path
A validated path demonstrated through controlled execution.
Rejected path
A proposed route whose assumptions or preconditions were not supported.
Definitions
Graph, flow, and path are related—but not interchangeable.
The graph contains entities and relationships. A flow describes ordered activity through those relationships. A path is a security-relevant route through the graph. Evidence determines how strongly each entity, relationship, flow, or path can be asserted.
Remediation chokepoint
Interrupt the paths.
Related attack paths may converge on a small number of authority, approval, component, data, tool, or control weaknesses. Prioritize the changes that interrupt the most consequential supported paths, then retest the original conditions.
Interrupt the paths.
Related attack paths may converge on a small number of authority, approval, component, data, tool, or control weaknesses. Prioritize the changes that interrupt the most consequential supported paths, then retest the original conditions.
Related attack paths may converge on a small number of authority, approval, component, data, tool, or control weaknesses. Prioritize the changes that interrupt the most consequential supported paths, then retest the original conditions.
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