{"id":7035,"date":"2024-10-01T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=announcement&#038;p=7035"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:08:22","slug":"exposure-management-attack-path-simulation-looking-at-your-environment-with-an-attacker-s-eyes","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/announcements\/exposure-management-attack-path-simulation-looking-at-your-environment-with-an-attacker-s-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure Management: Attack Path Simulation \u2013 Looking at your environment with an attacker\u2019s eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attack Path Simulation<\/strong> illustrates how attacker can exploit your environment.<\/p>\n<p>It models how attacker can take advantage of different vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to move inside the network and to find valuable targets.<\/p>\n<p>Attack Path Simulation is a core feature of <strong>WithSecure Exposure Management<\/strong> (<strong>XM<\/strong>), for pointing out your most vulnerable assets. It has already been part of XM\u2019s Remediation Impact scoring system throughout the Early Access period.<\/p>\n<p>We are now bringing the visualization of the attack path simulation, with which you are able to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Familiarize with the attacker point of view<\/li>\n<li>See which vulnerabilities and misconfigurations are part of an attack path and should be thus acted on<\/li>\n<li>Convince your stakeholders why a certain finding needs fixing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find any detected attack paths from <strong>Environment<\/strong> \/ <strong>Exposure <\/strong>\/ <strong>Recommendation<\/strong> in the column <strong>Related attack paths<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-image display-large float-none\"><a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1.png.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1.png.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1.png.webp 1558w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-300x157.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-1024x536.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-768x402.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-1536x804.png.webp 1536w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-447x234.png.webp 447w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/1-recommendations-1-279x146.png.webp 279w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" alt=\"1-Recommendations 1.png\" height=\"816\" width=\"1558\" loading=\"lazy\" data-display-size=\"large\" data-float=\"none\" data-type=\"image\/png\" data-embed-type=\"image\"><\/img><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Click to open one recommendation (with non-zero value) in the Related attack paths. If you don\u2019t have any (non-zero values), you can pat yourself on the back for having a really good security posture. <\/p>\n<p>Notice how the two of the assets have higher score than the third. This is because they are part of an attack path and have higher importance as well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-image display-large float-none\"><a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1.png.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1.png.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1.png.webp 1706w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1-300x146.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1-1024x499.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1-768x374.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1-1536x748.png.webp 1536w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/2-recommendation-with-attack-path-1-447x218.png.webp 447w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" alt=\"2-Recommendation with Attack Path 1.png\" height=\"831\" width=\"1706\" loading=\"lazy\" data-display-size=\"large\" data-float=\"none\" data-type=\"image\/png\" data-embed-type=\"image\"><\/img><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Click the <strong>Attack Path Visualization<\/strong> tab. Here you can see the assets and how vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in other assets could be used to breach these particular assets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-image display-large float-none\"><a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1.png.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1.png.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1.png.webp 1520w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1-300x168.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1-1024x572.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1-768x429.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1-447x250.png.webp 447w, https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/10\/3-attack-path-visualization-1-261x146.png.webp 261w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" alt=\"3-attack path visualization 1.png\" height=\"849\" width=\"1520\" loading=\"lazy\" data-display-size=\"large\" data-float=\"none\" data-type=\"image\/png\" data-embed-type=\"image\"><\/img><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Have you already checked your attack paths? We highly recommend checking these as part of your regular activities as an XM admin.<\/p>\n<p>WithSecure\u2122 Elements Exposure Management uses patent-pending AI-based attack path simulation technologies for heuristic exposure hunting and adversarial exposure validation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack Path Simulation illustrates how attacker can exploit your environment. 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