Attackers Don’t Rush Data. They Kill Visibility First.

My post contentDefense Evasion Before Initial Access !!! 🚨

Modern attacks rarely begin with “malware.” They begin by removing your ability to see.
In the attack path below, the adversary doesn’t sprint toward data.
They first degrade endpoint visibility:
Local admin abuse
Defense evasion against the XDR agent
SOC telemetry weakened — quietly

Only then does the real compromise unfold:
# Exposure in the storage management plane (default/weak configurations)
# Privileged remote access
# Remote command execution
# Persistence via account backdoors
# Full control of FlashArray / FlashBlade

Defense Evasion (endpoint/XDR) → Initial Access (storage mgmt plane) → Priv Esc → Full control → Data exfiltration / encryption / destruction.

The outcome is predictable:
exfiltration, encryption, destruction.
Not because an organization lacked tools —just security was siloed by layers.

Endpoint teams assumed XDR coverage.
Infrastructure teams assumed the management plane was trusted.
No one owned the path connecting them.
This is why modernization is not:
❌ adding another product
❌ tuning CVSS thresholds
❌ building one more dashboard

Modern security is:
✅ prioritizing attack paths, not alerts
✅ treating security controls as software + privilege (therefore attackable)
✅ connecting endpoint → identity → management plane → impact
✅ fixing pivot exposures that collapse multiple paths — not chasing thousands of findings

At Chakra-ETI, we don’t ask:
“Is this CVE critical?”
We ask:
“If this fails, what fails next — and how fast do we reach impact?”
That’s the difference between visibility and proof. 😊

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Using Palo Alto CVEs here as a representative example—the point is vendor-agnostic: any high-privilege security agent/console can become a target!