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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
8
Bibliography
10
End User License Agreement

Chapter 11
Threat Modeling Tools

This chapter covers tools to help you threat model. Tooling can help threat modeling in a number of ways. It can help you create better models, or create models more fluidly. Tools can help you remember to engage in various steps, or provide assistance performing those steps. Tools can help create a more legible or even beautiful threat model document. Tools can help you check your threat model for completeness. Finally, tools can help you create actionable output from a threat model.

Tools can also act as a constraint. You may find yourself stymied by usability issues, such as fields you're unsure how to fill out. Or you might find that a tool cramps your style. Some trade-offs are unavoidable as tools are created, so the chapter starts with general tools that are useful in threat modeling, and then progresses to more specialized tools.

A few disclosures: I do not have personal experience with each tool described here, and some of the tools I created...