attack path · toxic comboCRITICAL
internet→ec2-api→iam:ci→s3:pii
Toxic-combination attack paths
Correlate public exposure, IAM edges, secrets, and findings into ordered, multi-hop paths — not another wall of standalone alerts.
See the attack paths that actually reach your data
Trident maps every asset, identity, secret, and data store across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes — then correlates exposure, IAM reachability, and scanner findings into the toxic combinations that chain all the way to your crown jewels.
Live reachability graph · 3 clouds
Public API
AWS role
Azure identity
Customer data
Verified path · one permission closes both routes
Capabilities
One graph from public exposure to crown-jewel data
A CNAPP that prioritizes paths, not counters — so your team fixes the chain that reaches production data first.
Live asset & identity graph
Inventory every resource and identity, then explore blast radius outward from any asset to see exactly what an attacker could touch.
SOC 294%
CIS AWS88%
PCI DSS71%
Compliance mapped to risk
Track SOC 2, CIS, and PCI posture against the same graph, so each control gap is tied to the path it actually opens.
choke point
ec2→iam:ci-deploy→s3
1 fix · breaks 3 paths
Choke-point remediation
Every path names the single hop that closes it — usually an over-privileged role — so one fix breaks the whole chain.
Public asset reaches RDS
✓ Proven exploitablevalidated e2e
Proven, not theoretical
Paths are prioritized by the evidence Trident can reproduce, so engineers can distinguish demonstrated exposure from configuration noise.
remediation · draft PROpen PR
deny s3:GetObject on prod-exports for role/ci-deployFixes engineers can merge
Open a draft PR or copy a ready-to-paste fix prompt with remediation and a regression test — human-reviewed, never auto-applied.
How it works
From read-only role to a merged fix
01
Connect read-only
Attach a read-only role so Trident can inventory the assets, identities, secrets, and data stores in scope.
02
Build the graph
Relationships — assumes-role, reaches, exposes, stores — resolve into one queryable asset graph.
03
Correlate paths
Exposure, identity, and scanner findings collapse into ranked toxic-combination paths to crown-jewel data.
04
Hand off the fix
Each path ships its choke-point fix as a draft PR or copy-paste fix prompt with proof and a test.
Why Trident
From alert volume to proven attack paths
Most cloud tools count problems. Trident proves which ones reach your data.
Without Trident
With Trident
Scanners dump thousands of standalone misconfig alerts.
Exposure, IAM, secrets, and findings correlate into ranked attack paths.
You can't tell which alerts actually reach production data.
Validated paths connect reproducible evidence to a named crown-jewel store.
Fixes are guesswork spread across disconnected consoles.
Each path names the one choke point and ships a draft PR.
Agents and software have to be deployed across the estate.
A read-only connection builds the graph without deploying agents.
Compliance posture lives in a separate spreadsheet.
SOC 2, CIS, and PCI map to the same graph as the risk.
Outcomes
Fewer alerts. The right paths.
Stop buying alert volume. Buy the paths your team can actually close.
AWS · Azure · GCP
Cloud context
Read-only
Connection model
Connected
Assets, identities & data
Retested
After remediation
Scope
What Trident maps across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
A read-only connection is enough to build the graph. Nothing is deployed inside your accounts.
What cloud attack path analysis covers
Cloud attack path analysis connects the things a cloud account contains — compute, identities, policies, network exposure, and data stores — into the routes an attacker could actually walk between them. Instead of ranking thousands of misconfigurations by generic severity, it asks which combinations produce a reachable path to sensitive data, and which single change breaks the most paths at once.
- Identity reachability
- Role assumption chains, cross-account trust policies, service accounts with standing privilege, and the effective permissions an identity holds after every policy, boundary, and SCP has been evaluated together.
- Exposure
- Which resources are reachable from the internet through security groups, load balancers, API gateways, public buckets, and peering — and which of those front a service that can reach something valuable.
- Data location
- Where sensitive stores actually live across accounts, regions, and projects, including the snapshots, replicas, and analytics copies that inherit access from a source nobody is watching.
- Toxic combinations
- Conditions that are individually acceptable and jointly dangerous: a public workload with an over-broad instance role, or a developer group whose permissions transitively reach a production data key.
- Choke points
- The single policy, trust relationship, or network edge that appears in the largest number of distinct paths, so remediation can be ranked by paths removed rather than by findings closed.
Frequently asked
Questions teams ask before they start
What is a cloud attack path?
A cloud attack path is an ordered sequence of steps — each individually permitted by configuration — that carries an attacker from an entry point to something worth reaching. A public container assuming an over-privileged role, which can read a secret, which unlocks a database, is three legal operations that together constitute one path.
How is this different from CSPM?
Cloud security posture management evaluates resources against rules and reports violations independently. Attack path analysis evaluates relationships between resources, so it can say that two medium findings combine into a critical path, or that a critical finding is unreachable and can wait. The output is a route, not a list.
Does Trident need write access to my cloud accounts?
No. The graph is built from read-only access to configuration and metadata. Trident does not need to deploy agents, modify resources, or hold credentials that can change your environment in order to map attack paths.
Does it work across more than one cloud provider?
Yes. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are mapped into the same graph, which matters because real paths cross providers — a CI identity in one provider frequently holds credentials into another, and neither provider console shows that relationship.
Know the path. Close the risk.
Connect a read-only role and map toxic combinations across the cloud estate without deploying agents.