Threat Modeling

The only security book to be chosen as a Dr. Dobbs Jolt Award Finalist since Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography!

Adam Shostack is responsible for security development lifecycle threat modeling at Microsoft and is one of a handful of threat modeling experts in the world. Now, he is sharing his considerable expertise into this unique book. With pages of specific actionable advice, he details how to build better security into the design of systems, software, or services from the outset. You'll explore various threat modeling approaches, find out how to test your designs against threats, and learn effective ways to address threats that have been validated at Microsoft and other top companies.

Systems security managers, you'll find tools and a framework for structured thinking about what can go wrong. Software developers, you'll appreciate the jargon-free and accessible introduction to this essential skill. Security professionals, you'll learn to discern changing threats and discover the easiest ways to adopt a structured approach to threat modeling.

• Provides a unique how-to for security and software developers who need to design secure products and systems and test their designs

• Explains how to threat model and explores various threat modeling approaches, such as asset-centric, attacker-centric and software-centric

• Provides effective approaches and techniques that have been proven at Microsoft and elsewhere

• Offers actionable how-to advice not tied to any specific software, operating system, or programming language

• Authored by a Microsoft professional who is one of the most prominent threat modeling experts in the world

As more software is delivered on the Internet or operates on Internet-connected devices, the design of secure software is absolutely critical. Make sure you're ready with Threat Modeling: Designing for Security.

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Adam Shostack is a principal program manager on Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing team. He helped found the CVE , the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, and the International Financial Cryptography Association His experience shipping products (at both Microsoft and tiny startups) and managing operational security ensures the advice in this book is grounded in real experience.

Inhalt
Introduction xxi

Part I Getting Started 1

Chapter 1 Dive In and Threat Model! 3

Learning to Threat Model 4

Threat Modeling on Your Own 26

Checklists for Diving In and Threat Modeling 27

Summary 28

Chapter 2 Strategies for Threat Modeling 29

What's Your Threat Model? 30

Brainstorming Your Threats 31

Structured Approaches to Threat Modeling 34

Models of Software 43

Summary 56

Part II Finding Threats 59

Chapter 3 STRIDE 61

Understanding STRIDE and Why It's Useful 62

Spoofing Threats 64

Tampering Threats 67

Repudiation Threats 68

Information Disclosure Threats 70

Denial-of-Service Threats 72

Elevation of Privilege Threats 73

Extended Example: STRIDE Threats against Acme-DB 74

STRIDE Variants 78

Exit Criteria 85

Summary 85

Chapter 4 Attack Trees 87

Working with Attack Trees 87

Representing a Tree 91

Example Attack Tree 94

Real Attack Trees 96

Perspective on Attack Trees 98

Summary 100

Chapter 5 Attack Libraries 101

Properties of Attack Libraries 101

CAPEC 104

OWASP Top Ten 108

Summary 108

Chapter 6 Privacy Tools 111

Solove's Taxonomy of Privacy 112

Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols 114

Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) 114

The Nymity Slider and the Privacy Ratchet 115

Contextual Integrity 117

LINDDUN 120

Summary 121

Part III Managing and Addressing Threats 123

Chapter 7 Processing and Managing Threats 125

Starting the Threat Modeling Project 126

Digging Deeper into Mitigations 130

Tracking with Tables and Lists 133

Scenario-Specifi c Elements of Threat Modeling 138

Summary 143

Chapter 8 Defensive Tactics and Technologies 145

Tactics and Technologies for Mitigating Threats 145

Addressing Threats with Patterns 159

Mitigating Privacy Threats 160

Summary 164

Chapter 9 Trade-Off s When Addressing Threats 167

Classic Strategies for Risk Management 168

Selecting Mitigations for Risk Management 170

Threat-Specific Prioritization Approaches 178

Mitigation via Risk Acceptance 184

Arms Races in Mitigation Strategies 185

Summary 186

Chapter 10 Validating That Threats Are Addressed 189

Testing Threat Mitigations 190

Checking Code You Acquire 192

QA'ing Threat Modeling 195

Process Aspects of Addressing Threats 197

Tables and Lists 198

Summary 202

Chapter 11 Threat Modeling Tools 203

Generally Useful Tools 204

Open-Source Tools 206

Commercial Tools 208

Tools That Don't Exist Yet 213

Summary 213

Part IV Threat Modeling in Technologies and Tricky Areas 215

Chapter 12 Requirements Cookbook 217

Why a Cookbook? 218

The Interplay of Requirements, Threats, and Mitigations 219

Business Requirements 220

Prevent/Detect/Respond as a Frame for Requirements 221

People/Process/Technology as a Frame for Requirements 227

Development Requirements vs. Acquisition Requirements 228

Compliance-Driven Requirements 229

Privacy Requirements 231

The STRIDE Requirements 234

Non-Requirements 240

Summary 242

Chapter 13 Web and Cloud Threats 243

Web Threats 243 Cloud Tenant Threa...