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Breach Path Intelligence: Why It Matters for Your Cloud
Understanding how attackers move from one exposure to your most sensitive data — and how to prioritise remediation.
A single misconfiguration — a public S3 bucket, an overprivileged IAM role, an open security group — might not by itself cause a breach. But in combination, they form paths that an attacker can follow from the internet to your crown jewels.
What is breach path intelligence?
Breach path intelligence is the practice of modelling your cloud resources and their relationships (e.g. EC2 → IAM → S3) and then analysing which paths could lead from a public or weak entry point to sensitive data or critical systems. The goal is to answer: “If an attacker got here, where could they go next?”
That’s more actionable than a flat list of findings. You see not only “this bucket is public” but “this bucket is public and this role can access it from this instance, which is internet-facing.” So you know which fix has the highest impact.
How we do it
BobSentry scans your AWS account, builds a graph of resources and relationships, and identifies high-risk paths — for example, public compute plus privileged IAM plus sensitive storage. We classify severity and surface the paths in the dashboard and in reports, so you can prioritise remediation and explain risk to leadership.
If you want to see how your environment could be breached before it happens, start with a free cloud risk audit.