# Market Positioning & Research Foundations

AAPP-MART sits at the intersection of **academic attack graph modeling**, **BAS tooling**, and **AI-assisted adversary simulation**, combining **deterministic graph-based prediction** with **controlled autonomous simulation**.

It continuously models, predicts, and simulates attacker behavior, providing **forward-looking defensive validation**.

Built on research-grade principles:

- **Attack Graph Theory** – Models assets, privileges, and attacker transitions
- **Risk Modeling** – Likelihood × Impact framework
- **Deterministic Simulation** – Predictable multi-agent behavior
- **Graph Traversal** – DFS, Best-First, or A* exploration

Threat modeling ensures clarity and reproducibility:

- **STRIDE** – Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Info Disclosure, DoS, Privilege Escalation
- **Adversary Capability Model** – Attacker skills, access scope, potential actions
- **Formal Risk Notation** – Transparent likelihood, impact, and path scoring

**Conclusion:** AAPP-MART is a defensible, explainable, and academically credible simulation engine, elevating it from a standard tool to a research-grade security platform.
