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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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Chapter 7
Processing and Managing Threats

Finding threats against arbitrary things is fun, but when you're building something with many moving parts, you need to know where to start, and how to approach it. While Part II is about the tasks you perform and the methodologies you can use to perform them, this chapter is about the processes in which those tasks are performed. Questions of “what to do when” naturally come up as you move from the specifics of looking at a particular element of a system to looking at a complete system. To the extent that these are questions of what an individual or small team does, they are addressed in this chapter; questions about what an organization does are covered in Chapter 17, “Bringing Threat Modeling to Your Organization.”

Each of the approaches covered here should work with any of the “Lego blocks” covered in Part II. In this chapter, you'll learn how to get started looking for threats, including...