In cyber security, it feels like at least once a week there’s a news story that gets people spun up in a panic. While there is no shortage of vulnerabilities and critical issues in the world, not everything applies to everyone. Hence, the importance of threat modeling.image cre
If you’ve never done a threat modeling exercise, you should. At its most basic level, threat modeling asks you to think about ways that things could go wrong, work backwards to understand how your current controls would help, then identify your gaps. Threat modeling is one of the Swiss Army Knives of security, paying dividends over and over once you’ve gotten the hang of it.
