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attack path

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The steps that an adversary takes or may take to plan, prepare for, and execute an attack.

MWENational Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
attack paths
possessive
attack path's
pluralpossessive
attack paths'