# Attack Paths and Misconfigurations

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## Attack Paths and Misconfigurations

> **Section focus:** Attack Paths and Misconfigurations.\
> **Best use:** start with the section map below, then move into the deeper pages that match your role or stack.\
> **Design note:** this index was refreshed to act as a cleaner GitBook landing page instead of a plain directory listing.

### Start with these pages

| Page                                                                                                                                       | Why open it first                                                             |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [🔗 Cloud Attack Chains Overview](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/cloud-attack-chains.md)                            | High-value page inside **Attack Paths and Misconfigurations**.                |
| [🟧 AWS Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/aws-cloud-attack-chains.md)                             | High-value page inside **Attack Paths and Misconfigurations**.                |
| [🟦 Azure Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/azure-cloud-attack-chains.md)                         | High-value page inside **Attack Paths and Misconfigurations**.                |
| [🟨 GCP Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/gcp-cloud-attack-chains.md)                             | High-value page inside **Attack Paths and Misconfigurations**.                |
| [☸️ Kubernetes Attack Chains for Defensive Preparation](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/kubernetes-attack-chains.md) | High-value page for teams preparing for a pentest or platform hardening pass. |

### Related sections

* [Compliance and Assurance](/metrics-audit-risk-evidence-and-compliance/index-1/vendor-guides-and-standards-map.md)
* [Snippets and Reference](/learning-labs-interview-and-templates/index/git-commit-signing-and-image-signing.md)

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> **Intro:** This section translates posture problems into **real attacker sequences**. The point is not to be dramatic. The point is to show how a small mistake in identity, metadata, storage, CI/CD, or runtime hardening becomes a larger incident when the attacker chains steps together.
>
> **What this page includes**
>
> * a cross-cloud view of common attack patterns
> * deeper provider-specific chains for AWS, Azure, and GCP
> * practical hunting pivots and containment priorities
> * links back to the baselines that should break the chain early

### Core pages

* [🔗 Cloud Attack Chains Overview](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/cloud-attack-chains.md)
* [🟧 AWS Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/aws-cloud-attack-chains.md)
* [🟦 Azure Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/azure-cloud-attack-chains.md)
* [🟨 GCP Cloud Attack Chains](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/gcp-cloud-attack-chains.md)
* [☸️ Kubernetes Attack Chains for Defensive Preparation](/attack-paths-testing-detection-and-hardening/index-1/kubernetes-attack-chains.md)

### How to use this section

Use these pages in three ways:

1. **Threat modeling:** start with the attacker path, then ask which control would have broken the sequence first.
2. **Control validation:** compare your identity, logging, and segmentation defaults against the chains on these pages.
3. **Incident response:** when you already know the initial foothold, use the chain tables to predict the next two or three likely moves.

### Cross-links

* [🧠 Threat Modeling](/application-security-and-secure-sdlc/index.md)
* [☁️ Infrastructure and Cloud Security](/cloud-kubernetes-and-infrastructure-security/index.md)
* [📦 Container and Kubernetes Security](/cloud-kubernetes-and-infrastructure-security/index-1.md)


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