What you will learn
Threat modeling is a process to identify security weaknesses in software design and architecture. In this path, you will explore five courses, starting with a background and top-level view of threat modeling. The second course will describe three core security frameworks that can be used with threat modeling to find threats and mitigations. The third course covers the “moving parts,” or elements of a threat model and their relationship with each other. The fourth course covers the basics of threat modeling, the fifth course introduces secure agile architecture concepts, and the sixth is a lab bringing it all together.
Syllabus
Why Do Threat Modeling?
Course — 00:52:28
K0177, K0179, K0475, K0612
This course provides background and introduction to the basic concepts of why threat modeling is a powerful security capability.
Conceptual Frameworks
Course — 00:47:27
K0004, K0165, K0624
This course provides an overview of several security frameworks used to assist in threat modeling.
Threat Model Decomposition
Course — 00:57:21
K0002, K0005, K0013, K0070, K0106, K0165, K0474, K0475, K0604, K0612, S0167, S0229
This course breaks down of the elements of a threat model.
Threat Modeling 101
Course — 00:41:05
K0002, K0005, K0091, K0165, K0290, K0405, K0440, K0475, S0218, S0229
Take a look at the basic steps needed for creating a threat model.
RTMP – Rapid Threat Model Prototyping
Course — 01:23:22
K0081, K0146, K0321
This course explores threat modeling for agile and DevOps.
Threat Model Lab
Course — 00:18:12
This course ties all previous steps together with a lab.
Threat Modeling Skill Assessment
Assessment — 29 questions — 00:14:30
Meet the author
Geoffrey Hill has been in the IT industry since 1990 when he wrote and sold C++ based solutions to measure risk in the commodities markets in New York City. Since then he has worked around the world, specifically in New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Emmerich-am-Rhein and London.
In the mid-2000s, He was the main custodian of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) initiative in the UK and then international services organization as part of the Microsoft Security Center of Excellence (SCOE). From 2013 to 2018, he worked as the sole application security architect for Visa Europe in London, where he started Tutamantic Ltd, a producer of software risk automation.
Geoff is the inventor of the Rapid Threat Model Prototyping (RTMP) methodology. This threat model methodology allows for quick modeling in Agile and DevOps environments.
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