Definition(s)
Attack Path
Steps that a threat takes or may take to plan, prepare for, and execute an attack.
Source:API STANDARD 780, Security Risk Assessment Methodology for the Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries, First Edition, May 2013. Global Standards
Attack Path
Steps that an adversary takes or may take to plan, prepare for, and execute an attack.
Sample Usage: Part of the attack path for the car bombing involved dozens of individuals moving money, arms and operatives from the terrorist safe haven to the target area.
Annotation: An attack path may include recruitment, radicalization, and training of operatives, selection and surveillance of the target, construction or procurement of weapons, funding, deployment of operatives to the target, execution of the attack, and related post-attack activities.
Source: DHS Risk Lexicon, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2010 Edition. September 2010 Regulatory Guidance
Attack Path
The steps that an adversary takes or may take to plan, prepare for, and execute an attack.
Adapted from: DHS Risk Lexicon, NCSD Glossary
Source: NICCS™ Portal Cybersecurity Lexicon, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (https://niccs.us-cert.gov/glossary) as of 11 November 2015, Global Standards