Overview
The programme is a blend of practical use cases based on real-world projects and mentoring. Each use case includes an environmental description, questions, and templates for building a threat model.
Participants are challenged in virtual breakout rooms to carry out the different stages of threat modelling on the following:
Diagramming web and mobile applications, sharing the same REST backend
- Threat modelling an IoT gateway with a cloud-based update service
- Get into the attacker’s head – modelling points of attack against a CNI facility
- Threat mitigations for microservices and S3 buckets in a payment service
- Threat modelling the CI/CD pipeline
The results are discussed after each hands-on workshop, and participants receive a documented solution.
Prerequisites
None
Audience
Engineers, architects, solutions consultants, project managers, scrum masters and security professionals.
Delegates will learn how to
- The why, what, how, and when of threat modelling
- How to create and update a threat model
- How to create an actionable threat model with your stakeholders
- How to organise and prepare efficient threat modelling workshops
- How to explain the methodology and need for threat modelling to others
- Diagramming techniques, including Data Flow Diagramming
- Threat identification techniques, including STRIDE and attack trees
- How to carry out technical risk rating using the OWASP risk rating methodology
- How to mitigate security and privacy threats with standard mitigations
- The soft skills that will make you a better threat modeler
Live Use Case ‘Client’ Scenario specific learning outcome.
Outline
Week 1: Threat modeling introduction (self-paced)
- Threat modeling in a secure development lifecycle
- What is threat modeling?
- Why perform threat modeling?
- Threat modeling stages
- Different threat modeling methodologies
- Documenting a threat model
Week 2: Diagrams – what are you building? (self-paced & live lab)
- Understanding context
- Doomsday scenarios
- Data flow diagrams
- Trust boundaries
- Hands-on: Diagramming web and mobile applications, sharing the same REST backend
Week 2: Identifying threats – what can go wrong? (self-paced & live lab)
- STRIDE introduction
- Threat tables
- Hands-on: Threat modeling an IoT gateway with a cloud-based update service
- Attack trees
- Attack libraries
- Hands-on: Get into the attacker's head – modeling points of attack against a CNI facility
Week 3: Addressing each threat (self-paced & live lab)
- How to address threats
- Mitigation patterns
- Setting priorities through risk calculation
- Risk management
- Threat agents
- The mitigation process
- Threat mitigations for microservices and S3 buckets in a payment service
- Hands-on: threat modeling the DevOps CI/CD pipeline
Week 4: Threat modeling tooling and resources (self-paced)
- Open-Source & free tools
- Commercial tools
- Hard copy
- Online resources
- Threat modeling community
- Example threat models
Month 2: Bring your own case (self-paced & live lab)
- Bring your own threat model – Customer Specific
- Transfer activities
- Mentoring
- Review session
This course, also includes a complimentary online Certified Threat Modelling Practitioner exam, provided by Toreon.
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