‍Attack Path Analysis: Unleash Your Inner Adversary

Brace yourselves—a revolution in AppSec is on the horizon. Imagine seeing your application through the eyes of an attacker. Kodem’s Attack Path Analysis empowers AppSec teams to step into the enemy's shoes and map out potential attacks before they happen. Anticipate adversaries' moves and break the attack chain with precision. Welcome to the future of application security.

Prioritizing Vulnerabilities

Traditionally, vulnerabilities in an application are prioritized based on static parameters such as:

• Vendor-assigned severity levels
• Whether the vulnerable package is loaded and executed
• If the service accepts external calls
• Known exploits for the vulnerability
• While useful, these parameters often fail to capture the dynamic and interconnected nature of real-world attacks.

Introducing Attack Scenarios

Sophisticated attacks rarely rely on a single vulnerability. Instead, they unfold as a sequence of exploits, each one paving the way for the next. Understanding these complex attack paths is crucial for robust security. With Kodem’s Attack Path Analysis, you can now see your application from an attacker's perspective.

Here’s An Example Scenario

Imagine an attacker exploiting an unpatched SQL Injection vulnerability in a cloud application. They gain access to the database, find admin credentials, and escalate their privileges due to misconfigured IAM roles. They discover plaintext passwords in configuration files and exploit an open S3 bucket to exfiltrate sensitive data, undetected due to inadequate encryption and monitoring. This chain of vulnerabilities underscores the need to break the attack chain with precision.

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In this scenario, addressing the SQL Injection is crucial, but other vulnerabilities along the path also need attention. If remediating the SQL Injection takes longer than fixing the other vulnerabilities, this affects the overall prioritization. Kodem’s approach includes whole attack scenarios, not just standalone vulnerabilities, ensuring a comprehensive and dynamic prioritization strategy.

How Attack Path Analysis Works

Kodem’s attack scenario generation is powered by a sophisticated Large Language Model (LLM). Here’s how it works:

1. Context Enrichment: Kodem enriches the LLM with runtime and static information from the application environment.
2. Scenario Generation: The LLM generates multiple potential attack scenarios by enumerating possible attacker steps. This stage leverages the LLM’s capability to handle vast amounts of data and possibilities.
3. Scenario Refinement: Each generated scenario is refined to enhance coherence and completeness, ensuring it represents a realistic end-to-end attack path.
4. Validation and Filtering: Using an LLM-as-a-judge approach, false positives and illogical scenarios are filtered out. Hard-coded rules further refine the scenarios, ensuring only valid and interesting attack paths are presented.

This innovative approach dramatically reduces false positives and enhances the relevance of detected scenarios, allowing security teams to focus on the most critical and realistic threats.

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Discover Kodem’s Attack Path Analysis

The battlefield of application security is changing. Embrace the power to see your application through the eyes of an attacker. Anticipate moves before they happen and unleash your inner adversary. With Kodem’s Attack Path Analysis, and our patented runtime intelligence prepares your for the future of application security.

Map out how attacks could happen, break the attack chain, and secure your application with precision. Unleash your inner adversary and step into the future of AppSec. 

Watch our demo overview to see how we do it >>

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What is Attack Path Analysis?

Attack Path Analysis is the process of identifying and mapping potential routes an attacker could take to exploit vulnerabilities and compromise a system or application. It maps vulnerabilities to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and incorporates adversary tactics and techniques to simulate real-world attack scenarios. 

How Does Attack Path Analysis Work?

By mapping out the entire attack chain and validating exploitability with advanced AI, the Kodem runtime-powered application security platform helps organizations focus on the most critical issues that pose real-world threats. Kodem’s attack scenario generation leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) to enrich application data and generate multiple potential attack scenarios by simulating attacker steps. These scenarios are refined for coherence, validated to eliminate false positives, and filtered using both the LLM and hard-coded rules. This approach minimizes false positives and presents only the most critical, realistic attack paths to security teams.

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