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Onam Security technical whitepapers

Four papers on how Onam Security actually works — the attack-path method, how a finding gets a loss estimate, why everything writes into one graph, and how one control evaluation reports against 78 frameworks. Written for engineers and architects who want the mechanism, not the pitch.

01

How Onam finds the paths that matter

Attack paths

From cloud inventory to a confirmed, MITRE-mapped, scored attack path — the method, step by step.

  • How primitives compose into a chain, rather than matching a pre-authored shape
  • Verification: why only edges confirmed by evidence are walked
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping and how a path gets ranked

A methodology paper, not a benchmark. The examples come from a demo tenant and are illustrations, not customer results.

02

Cloud risk in business terms

FAIR-style

How Onam puts a FAIR-style loss estimate on each finding — with every input shown, so a board can see what drives the number.

  • Loss magnitude and frequency, and where each input comes from
  • Which inputs describe your business, and how to set them
  • Why findings on attack paths carry more weight than isolated ones

An estimate is only as good as the inputs and data classification behind it. It orders findings; it does not predict a breach.

03

One graph, one data model

Architecture

Why every engine writes the same finding contract into one store — and what that makes possible that a drawer of separate tools cannot.

  • The shared finding contract every engine conforms to
  • Why correlation is a property of the data model, not a feature bolted on later
  • What a single graph buys you across posture, identity, data and runtime

One data model is an architectural choice with real trade-offs — it constrains how fast any single engine can diverge.

04

Compliance, mapped once

78 frameworks

How Onam evaluates a control once and reports it against 78 frameworks — and reads each gap alongside the attack paths it sits on.

  • One control evaluation, many framework projections
  • 78 compliance frameworks over a single control set
  • Why a compliance gap matters more when it sits on an attack path

Framework mapping gives your auditor evidence per control, kept current between audits.

Why these aren’t gated

A whitepaper behind an email form gets read by nobody and cited by nobody. These are written to be forwarded to the colleague who actually has the question, quoted in a design review, and argued with. If the method holds up under that, it is worth more to us than your email address.