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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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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Chapter 18
Experimental Approaches

Today's approaches to threat modeling are good enough that a wide variety of people with diverse backgrounds and knowledge can use them to find threats against systems they are developing, designing, or deploying. However, there's no reason to believe that current approaches are the pinnacle of threat modeling. The same smart people who are finding new ways to reconceptualize programming and operations will find new ways to approach threat modeling.

This chapter presents some promising approaches with one or more identifiable issues to overcome. Those issues can include a lack of success with the method when used by those other than its inventors or a lack of prescriptiveness. Those approaches include looking in the seams; operational threat modeling approaches, including the FlipIT game and kill chains; the Broad Street taxonomy; and adversarial machine learning. This chapter also discusses threats to threat modeling approaches, risks to be...