Concerns about software security have been with us since the early days of modern computing. Within software security, we have used threat modeling as a security activity to analyze meaningful threats ...

John is a professional author, currently publishing evergreen and feature articles for Android Police. He discovered his passion for writing when he was very young, and enjoys how it challenges him ...

The MITRE ATT&CK framework, launched in 2015, has become the de facto method for cataloging attacks and understanding an organization's defensive capabilities. This information is also useful to risk ...

Threat Abstraction and Modeling is an important piece of planning in the enterprise as it can be used as an approach to better secure software. Threat Abstraction and Modeling is an important piece of ...

Modern software development involves selecting and integrating tens or hundreds of complex components, services and infrastructure to deliver systems at the speed of business demands. Each integrated ...

In a world where cyber threats continue to grow in complexity and quantity each year, threat modeling is one of the most advantageous and practical tools organizations can use to shore up security.

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Archie Agarwal shares experience and insights on how to move threat modeling from a confusing exercise to a powerful tool for security leaders Do you threat model? If so, when and how do you use it?

Over years of teaching threat modeling — including the STRIDE mnemonic, which I'll describe here — I've found that people often get stuck when trying to answer "what can go wrong?" My favorite way to ...