The problem with static threat lists isn't that the information is wrong — it's that the relationships are invisible. Prompt injection doesn't lead to a compliance incident in one step. It leads through five connected technique nodes, each of which has a defensive control that could break the chain. MITRE ATLAS Navigator™ makes those relationships visible, interactive, and explorable.
Interactive SVG threat graph with live attack simulation, coverage overlay, industry and system type filtering, custom nodes, time replay, and SVG export. Click any node to trace attack paths.
Every major AI security framework — MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF — presents threats as enumerated lists. This is necessary for standardisation and reference. It is insufficient for security planning. Lists tell you what the threats are. They don't tell you how they connect, which ones enable which others, or where in the attack chain your controls are most effective.
Consider a typical AI agent deployed in an enterprise environment. The threat list might include: Prompt Injection, Context Manipulation, Agent Abuse, Tool Misuse, Data Exfiltration. Five distinct entries. In practice, these aren't five separate incidents — they're five sequential stages of a single attack campaign. Understanding that Prompt Injection is the entry point, that it enables Context Manipulation, which enables Agent Abuse, which enables Tool Misuse, which results in Data Exfiltration, changes your defensive posture completely. You don't need to defend all five equally — you need to identify the most efficient break point.
Visualisation answers that question. Lists don't.
Adversary embeds malicious instructions in a document processed by the agent's RAG system
Injected instructions enter the agent's context, overriding system instructions during planning
Agent executes attacker-controlled instructions using its legitimate tool access
Agent accesses systems beyond its defined scope using inherited credentials
Sensitive enterprise data extracted via agent's external communication channels
The MITRE ATLAS Navigator™ renders this chain as a connected visual path. Click any node to see which defences break the chain at that step — and see your coverage overlay show exactly where your current controls are strong or absent.
Force-directed layout with pan, zoom, drag, and keyboard navigation (↑↓←→). Fullscreen mode for presentation use. SVG export for reports and decks.
Animate how attacks propagate across the graph in real time. Select a starting technique and watch the attack path illuminate step by step, with your coverage overlay showing where defences intercept.
Enter coverage scores per technique (0–100%). Nodes turn green (strong), yellow (partial), or red (gap). Instantly see the shape of your ATLAS coverage at a glance.
Replay the historical evolution of MITRE ATLAS — see which techniques were added over time and how the attack surface has grown. Useful for communicating threat landscape trends to executives.
Add organisation-specific threat nodes not yet in ATLAS — internal threat models, proprietary system risks, or future-facing attack vectors. Custom nodes connect to existing ATLAS nodes.
Filter by industry (Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Tech, Government), AI system type (Chatbot, RAG, Agent, MCP, Copilot), threat category, and coverage level. Isolate the techniques most relevant to your context.
The coverage overlay transforms the Navigator from a threat intelligence tool into an operational security planning tool. Enter your coverage scores and the graph immediately shows your security posture's shape — not as a table of numbers, but as a visual map of which parts of the ATLAS landscape are defended and which are exposed.
In the Navigator graph, this pattern is instantly visible: a cluster of green nodes (prompt injection defences) surrounded by yellow and red nodes (agent and RAG attack chains). The attack path simulation then shows exactly how an attacker moves through the undefended red nodes to reach high-value targets despite the strong prompt injection coverage.
Use the attack path graph to validate that control architecture actually breaks attack chains — not just addresses individual techniques in isolation. Custom nodes let you model proprietary system-specific threats.
Export SVG threat maps for board presentations. Coverage overlay translates complex security posture into a visual that non-technical executives immediately understand — green is defended, red is exposed.
Use attack path visualisation to identify the most efficient attack chains — where a single technique enables multiple downstream techniques. Live simulation shows exactly how attacks propagate through the target's coverage gaps.
Time replay shows how ATLAS has evolved — which techniques were added in each version, how the AI attack surface has grown, and how emerging attack categories relate to established ones.
Use the industry filters to immediately surface the most relevant threats for a client's sector. Export customised threat maps for client-specific threat modelling workshops and executive briefings.
The coverage overlay provides an immediate visual of which MITRE ATLAS techniques a control framework addresses — useful for AI security programme reviews and gap analysis documentation.
The Navigator occupies a specific role in the five-tool MITRE suite. The other four tools answer operational questions: how much are you covered, where are the gaps, how do you compare to peers, which controls address which threats. The Navigator answers the structural question: how does the AI threat landscape actually fit together?
| Tool | Primary Question Answered | Primary Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Threat Explorer™ | What is this technique and how does it work? | Security practitioners, engineers |
| Coverage Calculator™ | How much of ATLAS are we covered against? | CISOs, security architects |
| Coverage Benchmark™ | How do we compare to industry peers? | CISOs, boards, risk committees |
| ️ Security Mapping™ | Which controls address which threats? | Security architects, compliance teams |
| ATLAS Navigator™ | How do threats connect and form attack chains? | All — architects, consultants, researchers, executives |
Click any threat node to trace attack paths. Run a live simulation. Overlay your coverage scores. Export the graph as SVG for your next presentation.