Your Scanner Found 200,000 Vulnerabilities. An Attacker Doesn't Need a Single One.

The uncomfortable truth: when a pen tester breaks into your environment, they rarely exploit a CVE. They exploit the environment itself: cached credentials, flat networks, misconfigured trust, insecure protocols. Your scanner can't see any of it.

In this session, NopSec Head of Security Research Shawn Evans and Director of Solution Engineering Rob Johnson walk through how real attack chains work, and why focusing on CVEs alone leaves your biggest exposures wide open.

What You'll Learn

Why CVEs are just one link in the chain — Shawn breaks down the five systemic risk domains that actually enable attackers to move through your environment: credential hygiene, network segmentation, excessive privileges, misconfigured trust, and insecure protocols. None of these show up on your scanner output.

How attackers "live off the land" — Once inside, attackers don't download exotic toolkits. They use what's already there — PowerShell, Bash, cached credentials, default configurations. Shawn walks through real lateral movement and privilege escalation paths, step by step, from initial foothold to crown jewels.

The kernel-level exception you can't ignore — Most CVEs are noise, but ring zero exploits are a different story. Shawn explains why kernel-land vulnerabilities can disable your EDR entirely — and why understanding attacker behavior matters more than memorizing CVSS scores.

How NopSec models and validates your attack surface — Rob demos two levels of attack path analysis: simulation that models your riskiest paths using firewall rules, EDR policies, identity data, and threat intelligence — and adversarial emulation that actively tests whether those exposures can be exploited, like having a pen tester on demand.

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Stop chasing scanner noise. See how attack path analysis exposes the systemic risks your vulnerabilities are hiding behind.

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