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Threat Modeling Best Practices

Threat Modeling Best Practices

By : Derek Fisher
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Threat Modeling Best Practices

Threat Modeling Best Practices

By: Derek Fisher

Overview of this book

Threat modeling has become a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, yet it is often overlooked, leaving security gaps that attackers can exploit. With the rise in system complexity, cloud adoption, AI-driven threats, and stricter compliance requirements, security teams need a structured approach to proactively spot and stop risks before attackers do. This book delivers exactly that, offering actionable insights for applying industry best practices and emerging technologies to secure systems. It breaks down the fundamentals of threat modeling and walks you through key frameworks and tools such as STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK, PyTM, and Attack Paths, helping you choose the right model and create a roadmap tailored to your business. You'll learn how to use leading threat modeling tools, identify and prioritize potential threats, and integrate these practices into the software development life cycle to detect risks early. The book also examines how AI can enhance analysis and streamline security decision-making for faster, stronger defenses. By the end, you'll have everything you need to build systems that anticipate and withstand evolving threats, keeping your organization secure in an ever-changing digital landscape.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Threat Modeling Today’s Systems
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Applying Threat Modeling
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Advanced Topics and Industry Practices
15
Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Building a Threat Modeling Practice

Discovering and classifying threats can quickly become just busy work with no real value if a process for driving the practice in the organization does not exist. Nobody likes to see their work go unused, and creating a threat model as a one-off exercise limits its impact. However, driving a threat modeling practice largely depends on the size of the organization, the buy-in from leadership in both security and technology, as well as the tools to implement a practice. I’ve seen cases where threat modeling is simply a bolted-on exercise that is done once the design has been locked. This is too late in the pipeline to be effective, and it happens more often in places where the process is either not well defined or not well socialized. In other cases, it is a simple check-the-box task that is assigned to security folks and looks more like an architecture audit than a preemptive attempt at reducing risk. Not a complete waste of effort, but the...

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