PathTrace

ADVERSARY PATHWAY ANALYSIS AND EXPLORATION

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MODEL AND ANALYZE SITE VULNERABILITIES

Continuous vulnerability assessment and system evaluation are essential in assuring that your facility’s physical protection system is functioning as designed and as required. But a checklist of guards and security technologies will not provide insight into system effectiveness, advise on potential upgrades, or consider adversary capabilities.

To address these needs, Sandia National Laboratories developed PathTrace, a quantitative analysis modeling and simulation tool that uses established algorithms to identify system vulnerabilities. PathTrace calculates Probability of Interruption, Probably of Detection, and Critical Detection Point for multiple pathways, and generates an Adversary Sequence Diagram for each path, providing science-based, actionable data to help you improve security at any facility.

PATHTRACE LICENSING, TRAINING, AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT ARE FREE TO APPROVED PARTNERS.

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PATHTRACE FEATURES

  • Identifies the most vulnerable, quickest, and stealthiest paths.
  • Uses established algorithms to determine system vulnerabilities.
  • Computes Probability of Interruption (PI) for multiple pathways.
  • Computes Probability of Detection (PD) for multiple pathways.
  • Generates the Critical Detection Point (CDP) for each path.
  • Generates Adversary Sequence Diagram (ASD) for each path.
  • Allows you to test mitigation strategies for variables in detection, delay, and response.
  • More about PathTrace.

HOW PATHTRACE WORKS

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   Build Your Model

  • Use an aerial image of your facility taken from a diagram, blueprint, floor plan, or even a snip from Google Maps.
  • Fill in delay barriers such as walls, doors, fences, gates, and windows that would stop the progress of the attacker.
  • Define areas of detection, such as sensor volumes, patrolled zones, and camera coverage that would result in the detection of the attacker.

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   Define Response and Adversary Capabilities

  • Use facility testing data to specify the response team’s reaction time to a detection event.
  • Specify what types of tools the adversary might carry and consider multiple varieties of tool kits.
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   Analyze Your Facility

  • Generate and evaluate the quickest, stealthiest, and most vulnerable pathway to a target or target set.
  • Consider multiple “what if” scenarios.
  • Verify the effectiveness of an existing design.
  • Study ideas for facility or technology upgrades, test their effectiveness, and justify costs before they are implemented.

PATHTRACE PROVIDES ACTIONABLE DATA

  • Easily modify detection, delay, and response timelines to increase security posture.
  • Model and test facility upgrades before installation.
  • Demonstrate and provide data that justifies system effectiveness.
  • Discover vulnerable adversary pathways that may not be apparent.

BETTER TOGETHER

Use PathTrace to analyze adversary pathways and how modifications in detection, delay, or response affect security at your facility, then export a simplified model  into Scribe3D and create a tabletop exercise of the adversary attack pathway and your guard responses. Using both tools enables both quantitative and qualitative methods of system evaluation.

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