Toxic-combination paths
Exposure, IAM edges, secrets and findings become ordered, multi-hop paths.
Use cases · Cloud
See the attack paths that actually reach your data
One graph across AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes — the paths that end at your crown jewels.
Attack path · 3 hopsExample
- Public load balancer
- EC2 instance roleChoke point
- CI deploy credential
- Customer data store
Paths, not counters. Ranked by what they reach.
Live asset & identity graph
Inventory every resource and identity, then trace blast radius from any asset.
Compliance mapped to risk
SOC 2, CIS and PCI posture sit on the same graph as the risk.
Choke-point remediation
Every path names the one hop that closes it, usually an over-privileged role.
Proven, not theoretical
Paths rank by evidence Trident can reproduce, not by configuration noise.
Fixes engineers can merge
Each path opens a draft PR with remediation and a regression test.
From read-only role to a merged fix
Connect read-only
Attach a read-only role. Trident inventories assets, identities, secrets and data stores.
Build the graph
Assumes-role, reaches, exposes and stores resolve into one queryable graph.
Correlate paths
Exposure, identity and scanner findings collapse into ranked paths to crown-jewel data.
Hand off the fix
Each path ships its choke-point fix with proof and a test.
From alert volume to proven attack paths
Without Trident
With Trident
Without TridentScanners dump thousands of standalone misconfig alerts.
With TridentExposure, IAM and findings correlate into ranked attack paths.
Without TridentNo way to tell which alerts reach production data.
With TridentValidated paths connect reproducible evidence to a named store.
Without TridentFixes are guesswork across disconnected consoles.
With TridentEach path names one choke point and ships a PR.
Without TridentAgents have to be deployed across the estate.
With TridentA read-only connection builds the graph. Nothing is deployed.
Without TridentCompliance posture lives in a separate spreadsheet.
With TridentSOC 2, CIS and PCI map to the same graph.
Fewer alerts. The right paths.
Cloud context
AWS · Azure · GCP
Connection model
Read-only
Assets, identities and data
Connected
After remediation
Retested
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.
Attack paths
Cloud attack path analysis connects what an account contains — compute, identities, policies, exposure, data stores — into the routes an attacker could walk between them. Instead of ranking thousands of misconfigurations by severity, it asks which combinations reach sensitive data, and which single change breaks the most paths at once.
- Identity reachability
- Role assumption chains, cross-account trust, and the effective permissions an identity holds once every policy, boundary and SCP is evaluated together.
- Exposure
- What is reachable from the internet through security groups, load balancers, gateways, public buckets and peering — and which of those front something valuable.
- Data location
- Where sensitive stores live across accounts and regions, including the snapshots, replicas and analytics copies that inherit access from a source nobody watches.
- Toxic combinations
- Conditions that are individually acceptable and jointly dangerous: a public workload with an over-broad instance role, or a developer group that transitively reaches a production key.
- Choke points
- The one policy, trust relationship or network edge appearing in the most paths, so remediation ranks by paths removed rather than findings closed.
Questions about mapping a cloud estate
What is a cloud attack path?
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 that reads a secret that unlocks a database is one path.
How is this different from CSPM?
Posture management evaluates resources against rules and reports violations independently. Path analysis evaluates relationships, so it can say two medium findings combine into a critical path, or that a critical finding is unreachable. 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. Mapping attack paths needs no agents, no resource changes, and no credential that can alter your environment.
Does it work across more than one cloud provider?
Yes. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud map into the same graph. Real paths cross providers — a CI identity in one frequently holds credentials into another, and neither console shows that relationship.
Know the path. Close the risk.
Connect a read-only role and see the paths that reach your data.
Read-only connection. No agents deployed.