Software-Centric Threat Modeling

The Threat Modeling Podcast

Engineering-led, developer-focused, or software-centric threat modeling: they all have software in common. Composing software into functions through the user story's lens is important. Farshad Abasi shares his journey from being a software engineer to forming a global AppSec team at HSBC Bank. Farshad expresses the importance of asset-based threat modeling and the need to keep things simple. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on the user story and considering the "comma, but" scenario to understand potential threats. He also suggests using pull request templates in source control to ask standard threat modeling requirements-specific questions.

Farshad recommends doing architectural threat modeling at the beginning of the development process and revisiting it periodically, perhaps quarterly or annually. He also highlights the importance of being part of the DevSecOps process to review user stories regularly.
The key points are asset-based threat modeling, following the data, focusing on the user story, balancing high-level architecture threat modeling at the right time, and adopting pull request templates as reminders for threat modeling.
Provide a solid process that makes sense to developers, as they don't mind threat modeling when presented in this way.

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