Introduction Security teams have become adept at identifying vulnerabilities that could compromise their systems This article explores testing techniques isolation. . Run technique 5678, verify blocking. This approach gives you a sense of reality but doesn't tell you if an adversary who combines ten of these techniques, adapting at each step, could easily navigate your environment with every individual control quietly reporting "no issue detected." This isn't just a theoretical concern. Instead of testing techniques in isolation, Attack Chaining links them into a live sequence: the actual output from one action (a harvested credential, an open port, a token, a misconfigured permission) is automatically captured and used to determine what gets attacked next.
How It Works Five capabilities work together to make that possible: ## Going fully autonomous with XTM One These capabilities enable two distinct methods of executing a chain. Operators define only the objective and scope; a dedicated orchestrator agent then plans and executes the attack path autonomously, adapting as it goes—reacting to findings, reordering steps, and making decisions based on what it discovers. Both modes run on the same conditional engine and scope controls, delivering the same results: a realistic, end-to-end attack simulation that runs in minutes instead of weeks, repeatable as often as your environment changes, prioritized around your organization’s threat intelligence, and with results feeding into a unified exposure score.
