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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)
Free Chapter
1
Cover
7
Glossary
8
Bibliography
10
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Part III
Managing and Addressing Threats

Part III is all about managing threats and the activities involved in threat modeling. While threats themselves are at the heart of threat modeling, the reason you threat model is so that you can deliver more secure products, services, or technologies. This part of the book focuses on the third step in the four-step framework, what to do after you've found threats and need to do something about them; but it also covers the final step: validation.

Chapters in this part include the following:

  • Chapter 7: Processing and Managing Threats describes how to start a threat modeling project, how to iterate across threats, the tables and lists you may want to use, and some scenario-specific process elements.
  • Chapter 8: Defensive Tactics and Technologies are tools you can use to address threats, ranging from simple to complex. This chapter focuses on a STRIDE breakdown of security threats and a variety of ways to address privacy.
  • Chapter 9: Trade-Offs...