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Threat Modeling

By : Adam Shostack
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Threat Modeling

By: Adam Shostack

Overview of this book

As more software is delivered on the Internet or operates on Internet-connected devices, the design of secure software is critical. This book will give you the confidence to design secure software products and systems and test their designs against threats. This book is the only security book to be chosen as a Dr. Dobbs Jolt Award Finalist since Bruce Schneier?s Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography! The book starts with an introduction to threat modeling and focuses on the key new skills that you'll need to threat model and lays out a methodology that's designed for people who are new to threat modeling. Next, you?ll explore approaches to find threats and study the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Moving ahead, you?ll manage threats and learn about the activities involved in threat modeling. You?ll also focus on threat modeling of specific technologies and find out tricky areas and learn to address them. Towards the end, you?ll shift your attention to the future of threat modeling and its approaches in your organization. By the end of this book, you?ll be able to use threat modeling in the security development lifecycle and in the overall software and systems design processes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Cover
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Part II
Finding Threats

At the heart of threat modeling are the threats.

There are many approaches to finding threats, and they are the subject of Part II. Each has advantages and disadvantages, and different approaches may work in different circumstances. Each of the approaches in this part is like a Lego block. You can substitute one for another in the midst of this second step in the four-step framework and expect to get good results.

Knowing what aspects of security can go wrong is the unique element that makes threat modeling threat modeling, rather than some other form of modeling. The models in this part are abstractions of threats, designed to help you think about these security problems. The more specific models (such as attack libraries) will be more useful to those new to threat modeling, and are less freewheeling. As you become more experienced, the less structured approaches such as STRIDE become more useful.

In this part, you'll learn about the following approaches...