security-threat-modeling

Threat modeling identifies and documents security risks by mapping assets, trust boundaries, entry points, and attacker capabilities. It guides secure design decisions by making potential abuse paths explicit before implementation.

Document trust boundaries and attack surfaces by listing assets, mapping data flows, and defining attacker capabilities. This produces a threat model detailing entry points, abuse paths, and prioritized mitigations with owners and target dates.

The best way to prioritize security mitigations is to model abuse paths against assets and trust boundaries. This generates a prioritized mitigation plan with assigned owners, target dates, and a defined validation strategy.

Perform a threat modeling security review when designing new architectures, evaluating major feature changes, or preparing releases. It is required whenever explicit security design validation is needed before implementation.

Yes, you can apply threat modeling to validate security design for new data flows. The process maps assets and trust boundaries to identify potential abuse paths and document initial mitigations.