System and method for reducing a threat footprint of an area-of-interest

A method for reducing a threat footprint for an area-of-interest by, determining a base risk score for an area-of-interest, deriving a graphical representation of the area-of-interest and one or more defense strategies for the area-of-interest, training an adversarial reinforcement learning agent to identify one or more successful attack paths on the graphical representation of the area-of-interest that are effective in bypassing the one or more defense strategies for the area-of-interest, determining an active risk score based upon the one or more successful attack paths identified by the adversarial reinforcement learning agent and determining one or more mitigation actions that will reduce the active risk score for the area-of-interest based upon the base risk score and one or more predetermined resource constraint.