There’s a belief in the security community that if you’re doing threat mapping, you don’t need to do threat modeling. The idea is that threat mapping is just as good as, or at least takes the place of, threat modeling. It’s true they are both a formalized way to...
Are you aware of the National Cybersecurity Strategy announced by the Biden-Harris administration on March 2, 2023? Well, if you develop software, you better be. The goal of the strategy is for the U.S. Government to take the lead in creating a safe and secure digital...
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...
Take a look at the headlines in any security news outlet and one thing really stands out. There are data breaches everywhere. That happen all the time, to organizations that know better. And it’s not like anyone wants a data breach. In fact, just the opposite is true....
