High-Value Targeting
Use NodeZero to exploit what matters most
High-Value Targeting (HVT) is an advanced capability that autonomously identifies the crown jewels in your environment. HVT highlights the assets and identities that pose the greatest business risk if compromised.
Security teams face thousands of vulnerabilities and exposures but struggle to know which ones truly matter most. Traditional reports answer what an attacker can do, but not what threat actors and elite hackers would abuse in their environments.
High-Value Targeting determines the top business risks in your environment based on what an attacker would go after first.
Continuous insight into the crown jewels of your environment
High-Value Targeting pinpoints the crown jewels like executive identities, lead technical staff, production systems, and virtualization infrastructure, mapping each to financial, operational, and reputational impact. It helps teams focus on the critical assets driving most of the risk and equips leaders with board-ready insights.
What’s happening behind the scenes
Autonomous crown jewel identification
NodeZero ingests identity taxonomy, credential patterns, file system context. Then it uses graph-based reasoning and open-source intelligence to infer which users and systems are business-critical based on names, group memberships, access paths, and organizational unit (OU) hierarchy.
Prioritized testing based on what attackers consider high-value
Once targets are auto-tagged, NodeZero prioritizes attack paths compromising HVTs, performing lateral movement, privilege escalation, and chaining exposed credentials using advanced semantic reasoning.
Clear auto-tagging across all results
High-value targets and associated business risks are flagged in the Attack Graph, Real-Time View (RTV), Impacts, Weaknesses, Credentials, Hosts, and Executive Reports, making it easy to see what’s at stake and why.
Explainability through action logs
Each classification is accompanied by an explanation focused on GenAI replayability, revealing why the entity matters, such as executive credential reuse, sensitive OU, or shared access to a regulated system.
Simple configuration
High-Value Targeting runs autonomously and by-default for internal, phishing, and insider threat tests. Customers can choose which tests run with no separate install, no graph-wrangling, nor any custom queries. All HVT are categorized in NodeZero® with inference logged for transparency and audit.