It’s easy to think of threat modeling as something developers do during the DevOps process to ensure a safe application. And that’s certainly true. To that end, threat modeling is something you do when developing an application. But that’s not the only time you should...
Human beings and organizations suffer from a cognitive condition known as recency bias. Recency bias “is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones. It is the tendency to place too much emphasis on experiences that are freshest in your memory—even...
Any piece of code can have a vulnerability. Whether application code or infrastructure code, errors, oversights and misconfigurations happen. The question developers must answer is, how many negative outcomes an attacker could realize because of that vulnerability....
You threat model to identify threats and implement mitigations before you deploy an application. In this regard, the overarching reason for your commitment to do threat modeling is to avoid incident response altogether. Theoretically, an application with no...
There is general consensus in the DevSecOps community that threat modeling is a good thing. The sooner in the application development cycle you find a threat the less it costs to fix, and there’s hardly any better way to “shift left” than with threat modeling. So, why...
