Shostack + Friends Blog Archive

 

There's more than one way to threat model

Today, most presentations on threat modeling talk about each phase of the process. They talk about how to model what you’re building, what can go wrong, and what to do about it. Those tightly coupled processes can be great if you’ve never heard of an approach to threat modeling. But they can add to the […]

 

Threat modeling the Dread Pirate Roberts way

It has to be said that no one in the Princess Bride is great at threat modeling. But one scene in particular stands out. It’s while they’re planning to attack the castle and rescue Buttercup: Westley: I mean, if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something. Inigo: Where we did we put that […]

 

Virtual assistant services?

I’m getting ready to announce an East coast book tour. In planning my Silicon Valley tour, I learned that between scheduling, getting the details needed out, making sure I knew where I was sleeping, there was a large amount of administrative work involved. So I’d like to hire someone to take care of all that […]

 

Threat Modeling & Devops: Like Peanut Butter & Jelly

George Hulme interviewed me for Devops.com, and the article is at “Q&A: Speaking DevOps and Threat Modeling.” Its obvious that devops is an important trend, andit’s important to understand how to align threat modeling to that world.

 

Should I Start Threat Modeling from Assets?

A couple of reviewers have commented that they have different perspective on assets. For example, in a review I very much appreciated, Gunnar Peterson says: I have slightly a different perspective on Shostack’s view on assets. The book goes into different views that launch the threat model, the approach advocated for in the book is […]

 

L'Academie Gawker

Via Poynter, we learn that the word “massive” has been banned on Gawker. We want to sound like regular adult human beings, not Buzzfeed writers or Reddit commenters,” new Gawker Editor Max Read says in a memo to the publication’s writers. Words like “epic,” “pwn” and “derp” are no longer welcome on the site. Read […]