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Threat Modeling
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In today's fast-paced world, there is a tendency to streamline development activity, and there are important reasons to threat model, which are covered in this section. Those include finding security bugs early, understanding your security requirements, and engineering and delivering better products.
If you think about building a house, decisions you make early will have dramatic effects on security. Wooden walls and lots of ground-level windows expose you to more risks than brick construction and few windows. Either may be a reasonable choice, depending on where you're building and other factors. Once you've chosen, changes will be expensive. Sure, you can put bars over your windows, but wouldn't it be better to use a more appropriate design from the start? The same sorts of tradeoffs can apply in technology. Threat modeling will help you find design issues even before you've written a line of code, and that&apos...
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