Find flaws before they're code.
Threat modeling using STRIDE, PASTA and DREAD - facilitated sessions with your engineers and architects. Catches the architectural mistakes a pentest finds far too late.
Frameworks
Three methodologies, one engagement
Used together, they cover enumeration (STRIDE), business risk (PASTA) and prioritization (DREAD).
STRIDE
Microsoft's classic - per-component threat enumeration.
- Spoofing
- Tampering
- Repudiation
- Info Disclosure
- Denial of Service
- Elevation of Privilege
Best for
- App design review
- API security analysis
- Authentication systems
- Data-flow security
PASTA
Risk-centric, business-impact driven attack simulation.
- Define objectives
- Define technical scope
- Decompose app
- Threat analysis
- Vulnerability mapping
- Attack modelling
Best for
- Risk assessment
- Business-impact analysis
- Compliance requirements
- Strategic planning
DREAD
Quantitative rating to prioritize what to fix first.
- Damage potential
- Reproducibility
- Exploitability
- Affected users
- Discoverability
Best for
- Vulnerability scoring
- Risk prioritization
- Security investment decisions
- Remediation planning
Process
A six-phase engagement
Typical engagement runs 1-3 weeks depending on system complexity. Facilitated, not lecture-style.
Asset identification
Map critical assets, data flows and trust boundaries in your system.
Architecture analysis
Review system architecture, components and integration points.
Threat identification
Apply STRIDE / PASTA / DREAD systematically to surface threats.
Risk assessment
Evaluate likelihood + business impact of each identified threat.
Mitigation strategies
Develop security controls and countermeasures for prioritized threats.
Documentation
Deliver threat-model document, DFDs, remediation roadmap.
Why threat modeling
Cheaper than
finding it in prod.
Cost-to-fix grows by 10-100× from design to production. Threat modeling is the cheapest place to catch a security flaw, full stop.
- Catch design-level flaws before code ships to production
- Reduce cost-to-fix by 10-100× vs production patches
- Align security requirements with business goals
- Improve communication between security and engineering
- Map directly to ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI evidence needs
- Build security into architecture from the ground up
What you get
Concrete artifacts your engineers and your auditors will both reference.
- Data-flow diagrams (DFDs) with trust-boundary annotations
- Threat catalog with likelihood × impact scoring
- Prioritized mitigation roadmap with effort estimates
- Mapping to ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / OWASP / NIST controls
- Workshop sessions with your engineering team
- Re-review window after architecture changes
Threat-model your next release.
A short workshop now is worth weeks of pentest later. Tell us what you're building and we'll scope a session inside 48 hours.