Overview
Threat modeling is the primary security analysis task performed during the software design stage. Threat modeling is a structured activity for identifying and evaluating application threats and vulnerabilities. The security objectives, threats, and attacks modeling activities during the threat modeling are designed to help you find vulnerabilities in your application and the supporting architecture. You can use the identified vulnerabilities to help shape your design and direct and scope your security testing.
Threat modeling allows you to consider, document, and discuss the security implications of designs in the context of their planned operational environment and in a structured fashion. It also allows consideration of security issues at the component or application level. The threat modeling course will teach you to perform threat modeling through a series of workshops, where our trainer will guide you through the different stages of a practical threat model.
Prerequisites
None.
Target Audience
This course is aimed at software developers, architects, system managers or security professionals. Before attending this course, students should be familiar with basic knowledge of web and mobile Applications, databases & Single sign on (SSO) principles.
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
Outline
Threat modeling introduction
- Threat modeling in a secure development lifecycle
- What is threat modeling?
- Why perform threat modeling?
- Threat modeling stages
- Different threat modeling methodologies
- Document a threat model
Diagrams – what are you building?
- Understanding context
- Doomsday scenarios
- Data flow diagrams
- Trust boundaries
- Sequence and state diagrams
- Advanced diagrams
- Hands-on: diagramming web and mobile applications, sharing the same REST backend
Identifying threats – what can go wrong?
- STRIDE introduction
- Spoofing threats
- Tampering threats
- Repudiation threats
- Information disclosure threats
- Denial of service threats
- Elevation of privilege threats
- Attack trees
- Attack libraries
- Hands-on: STRIDE analysis of an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway and cloud update service
Addressing each threat
- Mitigation patterns
- Authentication: mitigating spoofing
- Integrity: mitigating tampering
- Non-repudiation: mitigating repudiation
- Confidentiality: mitigating information disclosure
- Availability: mitigating denial of service
- Authorization: mitigating elevation of privilege
- Specialist mitigations
- Hands-on: AWS threat mitigations for a travel booking system build on microservices
Threat modeling and compliance
- How to marry threat modeling with compliance
- GDPR and Privacy by design
- Privacy threats
- LINDUNN and Mitigating privacy threats
- Threat modeling medical devices (FDA pre- and post-market guidance)
- Threat modeling Industrial Control Systems (IEC 62443)
- Threat Assessment and Remediation Analysis for automotive (TARA, SAE 21434)
- Mapping threat modeling on compliance frameworks
- Hands-on: privacy threat modeling of a face recognition system in an airport
Penetration testing based on offensive threat models
- Create pentest cases for threat mitigation features
- Pentest planning to exploit security design flaws
- Vulnerabilities as input to plan and scope security testing
- Prioritization of pentesting based on risk rating
- Hands-on: get into the defender's head – modeling points of attack of a nuclear facility.
Advanced threat modeling
- Typical steps and variations
- Validation threat models
- Effective threat model workshops
- Communicating threat models
- Agile and DevOps threat modeling
- Improving your practice with the Threat Modeling Playbook
- Scaling up threat modeling
- Threat modeling and compliance: ISO14971 (medical devices), IEC 62443 (industrial cybersecurity), SAE 21434 (automotive)
- Threat models examples: medical devices, automotive, industrial control systems, IoT and Cloud
Threat modeling resources
- Open-Source tools
- Commercial tools
- General tools
- Threat modeling tools compared
- Battle for control over 'Zwarte Wind', an offshore wind turbine park
Examination
- Hands-on examination
- Grading and certification
Student package
Your bonus training package includes:
- Following a successful exam (passing grade defined at 70%): Threat Modeling Practitioner certificate
- One year of access to our threat modeling e-learning platform
- Presentation handouts
- Tailored use case worksheets
- Detailed use case solution descriptions
- Threat model documentation template
- Template for calculating identified threat risk severity
- Threat modeling playbook
- STRIDE mapped on compliance standards
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