Don’t Let Failing Banks Distract You from Cyber Threats

Don’t Let Failing Banks Distract You from Cyber Threats

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...
Does the New National Cybersecurity Strategy Make Threat Modeling Essential?

Does the New National Cybersecurity Strategy Make Threat Modeling Essential?

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...
How Threat Modeling Can Help Minimize Your Application’s Blast Radius

How Threat Modeling Can Help Minimize Your Application’s Blast Radius

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....
Can Threat Modeling Actually Improve Incident Response?

Can Threat Modeling Actually Improve Incident Response?

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...
Are Your Threat Models Ready for Q-Day?

Are Your Threat Models Ready for Q-Day?

Threat models are really good at identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats. But they’re not much good at addressing threats nobody knows about. And that brings us to the security threats expected to arrive on Q-Day. We know about some of the threats that are...