One compromised identity.Unlimited blast radius.Spakto maps every path.
Spakto continuously analyzes how users, service accounts, IAM roles, tokens, and trust relationships combine into real privilege escalation and lateral movement paths — surfacing the identity exposures that create your highest-risk attack chains.
IAM policies look safe.
Attack paths are not.
Compliance audits validate policies in isolation. Attackers chain them together. Spakto maps the full identity graph — finding the paths through your environment that no IAM review or permission audit can surface.
Every identity surface.
Continuously mapped.
Identity doesn't live in one place. Spakto ingests and correlates across all six identity surfaces — finding the cross-domain chains that siloed tools always miss.
Full AD object graph: users, groups, OUs, GPOs, trust relationships, and delegation chains — including nested memberships and shadow admins.
How attackers actually
abuse identity.
Not theoretical CVEs — these are the five real attack chains Spakto finds in production environments. Each pattern is mapped to live configuration, not compliance checkboxes.
How Spakto maps
identity attack paths.
Ingest
Connect to every identity data source
- Connects to AD / LDAP with read-only LDAP bind — no agent required
- Pulls Entra ID via Microsoft Graph API (read-only service principal)
- Ingests AWS IAM via read-only ListRoles, GetPolicy — no write permissions
- Connects K8s via cluster read-only SA token for RBAC resource enumeration
Compliance checks policies.
We test how attackers use them.
An IAM audit can score 91/100 while leaving four critical attack paths open. Compliance measures control existence — Spakto measures control effectiveness against real adversaries.
Who uses Identity
Attack Path Analysis.
From IAM teams hunting shadow admins to zero trust architects validating their perimeters — Spakto gives every identity security role the attacker's-eye view they've been missing.
Identity security teams use Spakto to move beyond policy reviews and find the exploitable chains that only become visible when identities are modeled as a graph — not a spreadsheet.
- Continuous shadow admin detection across AD and Entra
- Kerberoast and delegation abuse surface before red team engagement
- Cross-domain privilege escalation chains ranked by blast radius
- Remediation ordered by path elimination efficiency — not CVE score
“We passed 4 IAM audits. Spakto found 12 shadow admins on day one. Those audits were checking the wrong thing.”
— IAM Security Lead, Financial Services
Not a Domain Admin.
Three ACEs away from one.
Shadow admin paths exist in every Active Directory environment. Standard audits check direct group memberships — they miss multi-hop ACE chains through nested groups, GPO links, and object-level permissions that give low-privilege users a path to Domain Admin.
Standard AD auditing checks memberOf — it does not traverse multi-hop ACE chains.
Most SIEM rules alert on direct Domain Admins additions, not indirect permission chains.
GenericWrite, WriteDACL, and AllExtendedRights are not flagged as dangerous without graph traversal context.
Real commands. Real evidence.
Every PrivEsc step proven.
Not theoretical — for each privilege escalation path, Spakto produces the exact API calls, command output, and evidence an attacker would see. Run the simulation to replay the exploit chain step-by-step.
Every identity plotted by
privilege level and exposure score.
The matrix surfaces your riskiest identities instantly: those with high privilege AND high exposure are your most exploitable accounts. Filter by domain, hover any node for full risk context.
Identity & Access Analysis FAQs
Frequently asked
questions.
answered
Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra ID, Okta, AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, GitHub, GitLab, CyberArk, SailPoint, Ping Identity, and more via native connectors.
Spakto's graph traversal engine finds all indirect paths to high-privilege groups (Domain Admins, Global Admins, etc.) including multi-step chains through ACL permissions, group delegation, and trust relationships that standard tools miss.
PAM solutions manage and vault privileged credentials. Spakto discovers all identity-based attack paths — including paths that bypass PAM by exploiting trust, delegation, and permission chains. They complement each other.
Continuously. New accounts, permission changes, group modifications, and role assignments are reflected in the attack graph within minutes.
No. Spakto uses read-only access to enumerate identities, group memberships, permissions, and trust relationships. We never modify accounts, policies, or access configurations.
Yes. Spakto enumerates service accounts with SPNs, assesses password strength indicators, and maps the lateral movement paths available if those accounts were compromised.
For any compromised identity, blast radius shows every system, cloud resource, and data store an attacker could reach using that identity's direct and indirect permissions.