Differences Between Attack Path Analysis and Tenable One Identity Exposure

Attack Path and Tenable One Identity Exposure overlap mainly on the Active Directory attack techniques. The Attack Path modules for Attack Path and Tenable One Identity Exposure were designed to achieve different objectives.

Attack Path highlights exploitable and realistic attack paths, which an attacker would likely choose, whereas Tenable One Identity Exposure enables thorough exploration and visualization of the underlying security relationships of Active Directory. Therefore, Attack Path is based on the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework and supports attack techniques across the endpoint, network, and cloud, whereas Tenable One Identity Exposure focuses on Active Directory security.

When to Use Attack Path and Tenable One Identity Exposure

Attack Path was developed from the attacker point of view and it best suits cybersecurity practitioners such as blue and red teams. For Tenable One users, you can use Attack Path when you want to search for all probable attack paths within the entire security stack across the Cyber Kill Chain.

Although most Tenable One Identity Exposure Indicators of Exposure (IoEs) are included in the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework and also supported in Attack Path, IT administrators and Active Directory Security Engineers should use Tenable One Identity Exposure for full context and visibility to the bits and bytes of Active Directory.