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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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Appendix D

Elevation of Privilege: The Cards

This appendix discusses the threats in the Elevation of Privilege card game. It goes beyond the material included in the game, with the goal of making the game more helpful. Each bulleted item in the lists that follow includes the card, the threat, a brief discussion, and possibly a reference or comments about how to address it.

The aces are all of the form “You've invented a new type of attack.” The intent of “new” is “not clearly covered in a card,” rather than “never before seen.” How to interpret “clearly covered” is up to the group that's playing. You might be liberal, and encourage use of the aces, especially by those who are not security experts. You might be harsh, and set a high bar for security experts. It depends on the tone of your gameplay. However you decide to interpret it, be sure to write down the threat and address it. There is no per-threat...