Attack path

    A chain of legitimate permissions, exposures and vulnerabilities that leads an attacker from initial access to a valuable asset.

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    Individual findings are often low severity in isolation; an attack path shows how three of them combine into domain compromise. This is why path analysis outranks severity-sorted vulnerability lists for prioritisation.

    Cutting the shortest paths first usually collapses large parts of the graph for very little effort. Non-human identities — service accounts, API keys, and increasingly AI agent identities — now sit in the same graph as human accounts and often shorten the path to a critical asset, since they're reviewed far less often.