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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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End User License Agreement

Chapter 14
Accounts and Identity

If you don't get account management right, you open the door to a slew of spoofing threats. Your ability to rely on the person behind a keyboard being the person you've authorized falls away. This chapter discusses models of how computers identify and account for their users, and the interaction of those accounts with a variety of security and privacy concerns. Much of the chapter focuses on threat modeling, but some of it delves into thinking about elements of security and the building blocks that are used. The repertoire in this chapter is specialized, but frequently needed, which makes it worth working through these issues in detail.

As the world becomes more digital, we interact not with a person in front of us but with their digital avatars and their data shadows. These avatarsand shadows are models of the person. Remember: All models are wrong, and some models are useful. When the model is a model of a person, he or she may take offense...