Original Post: Threat Modeling: Anticipating and Outmaneuvering Security Risks | by Osama Okunbo | Aug, 2024
The article underscores the importance of threat modeling in cybersecurity, likening it to a chess game where you anticipate your opponent’s moves to protect your system. Key facets of threat modeling include identifying assets, threats, and vulnerabilities, developing mitigations, collaborating with security professionals, and continuous documentation and review. It also outlines various threat modeling techniques like STRIDE (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information disclosure, Denial of service, Elevation of privilege), DREAD (Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, Discoverability), attack trees, and PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis). The piece emphasizes that threat modeling is a collaborative process involving both developers, who understand the code intricacies, and security experts, who are aware of the latest threat vectors, to create robust and secure systems.
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