Security Foundations and Threat Modeling

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TRACK

A practical foundation for turning system diagrams, assets, trust boundaries, adversary assumptions, and abuse paths into prioritized security requirements, verifiable controls, and living threat models.

How do I turn a real system boundary into a useful threat model: identify what matters, trace what can go wrong, choose proportionate controls, and verify that the remaining risk is understood?

16 lessons

Continues to Adversarial Security and Hacker Mindset/ Application Security and Secure Design/ Cloud, Container, and Supply Chain Security/ Cryptography, Secrets, and Key Management/ Detection, Response, and Forensics/ Security and Platform Trust

LESSONS

1. 001
   Threat Modeling Starts With the System
   [TODO]
2. 002
   Assets, Security Objectives, and Impact
   [TODO]
3. 003
   Data Flows, Entry Points, and Trust Boundaries
   [TODO]
4. 004
   Review: Scope a Threat Model REVIEW
   [TODO]
5. 005
   Threat Actors, Capabilities, and Assumptions
   [TODO]
6. 006
   Abuse Cases and Attack Paths
   [TODO]
7. 007
   STRIDE as a Prompt, Not a Checklist
   [TODO]
8. 008
   Review: Challenge the Threat Model REVIEW
   [TODO]
9. 009
   Turn Threats Into Security Requirements
   [TODO]
10. 010
    Break Attack Paths With Layered Controls
    [TODO]
11. 011
    Prioritize Risk Without Fake Precision
    [TODO]
12. 012
    Residual Risk, Ownership, and Decision Evidence
    [TODO]
13. 013
    Verify Mitigations With Tests and Signals
    [TODO]
14. 014
    Keep Threat Models Alive Through Change
    [TODO]
15. 015
    Threat Model Review Check REVIEW
    [TODO]
16. 016
    Capstone: Threat-Model a Service Boundary CAPSTONE
    [TODO]

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