Cloud environments differ in a number of ways from more traditional on-prem environments. From the immense scale and compounding complexity to the rate of change, the cloud creates a host of challenges for security teams to navigate and grapple with. By definition, anything running in the cloud has the potential to be made publicly available, either directly or indirectly. The interconnected nature of these environments is such that when one account, resource, or service is compromised, it can be fairly easy for a bad actor to move laterally across your environment and/or grant themselves the permissions to wreak havoc. These avenues for lateral movement or privilege escalation are often referred to as attack paths.
Having a solution in place that can clearly and dynamically detect and depict these attack paths is critical to helping teams not only understand where risks exist across their environment but arguably more importantly how they are most likely to be exploited and what that means for an organization – particularly with respect to protecting high-value assets.
Detect and Remediate Attack Paths With InsightCloudSec
Attack Path Analysis in InsightCloudSec enables Rapid7 customers to see their cloud environments from the perspective of an attacker. It visualizes the various ways an attacker could gain access, move between resources, and compromise the cloud environment. Attack Paths are high fidelity signals in our risk prioritization model that focuses on identifying toxic combinations that lead to real business impact.
Since Rapid7 initially launched Attack Path Analysis, we’ve continued to roll out incremental updates to the feature, primarily in the form of expanded attack path coverage across each of the major cloud service providers (CSPs). In our most recent InsightCloudSec release ( expanded coverage attack visualizations security teams prioritize cloud understand blast radius
