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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 17
Bringing Threat Modeling to Your Organization

This chapter starts from the assumption that your organization does not threat model. If that assumption is wrong, the chapter may still help you bring more advanced threat modeling to your organization, or better organize the threat modeling you perform to generate greater impact. What you've learned through this point in the book can be applied by an individual without organizational support. This chapter is for those who want to influence the practices of the organization they're working for. (Consultants will also find it helpful.)

There are many ways to introduce a new practice to your organization. One is to stand up in front of everyone and say, “I just read this awesome book, and we should totally do this!” Another is to say, “I just tried this, and look how many bugs I found!” Yet another would be to intrigue people with a copy of Elevation of Privilege, saying “Check out this...