security-lens

Threat modeling for new API endpoints applies STRIDE and OWASP Top 10 to data flows and code changes, mapping trust boundaries to identify spoofing, tampering, and elevation of privilege risks. It outputs prioritized findings with assigned confidence levels for developer remediation.

Detecting hardcoded secrets and sensitive information leakage during code reviews involves scanning for exposed credentials, analyzing insecure error handling, and verifying logging controls. The process identifies sensitive data output and rates the confidence of each finding to prioritize remediation.

OWASP Top 10 can verify authentication and authorization boundaries in infrastructure by assessing default-deny policies, session management, and privilege boundaries. It maps trust boundaries across components and network configurations to expose missing protections and rate confidence for each observation.

The best way to prioritize security vulnerabilities in software components is adopting an attacker perspective to identify high-impact, exploitable issues. This approach reduces noisy findings by assigning confidence levels to each threat, ensuring developers focus on remediating likely compromises and data exposures.

This security review approach works for pre-merge code changes, post-implementation verification, and design reviews. It analyzes code changes, endpoints, and infrastructure against STRIDE and OWASP Top 10, mapping trust boundaries and cryptographic controls to produce a prioritized security assessment.

Security code reviews return too many noisy findings when they lack an attacker perspective and fail to prioritize exploitable issues. By applying STRIDE and OWASP Top 10 to assess realistic threats and assigning confidence levels to each observation, you can filter out low-impact vulnerabilities and focus on high-impact compromises.