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Cloud attack path

The chain of misconfigurations, permissions, and connections an attacker could follow from an entry point to a sensitive resource. A single blocked step anywhere in the chain can break the whole path.

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Blast radius

The maximum damage an attacker could do, or a misconfiguration could expose, once a single resource is compromised.

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Misconfiguration

An unintended or insecure setting on a cloud resource, such as a public storage bucket or an overly permissive role – the leading cause of cloud breaches.

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Guardrail

An enforced boundary that prevents a non-compliant change from taking effect, rather than simply flagging it for someone to review later.

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Exposure window

The time a misconfiguration sits live and exploitable: time-to-detect plus time-to-remediate. In a purely reactive model, it can never reach zero.

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