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Cyber Threat Modeling
For organizations striving to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses, threat modeling is an essential tool for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing cyber risks. This guide offers a systematic approach to threat modeling, focusing on ways to understand and counteract potential vulnerabilities. Whether you’re a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), part of a Security Operations Center (SOC) team, or a risk manager, adopting a structured threat modeling framework can bolster your organization’s resilience against cyber threats.
What is Cyber Threat Modeling?
Cyber threat modeling is a proactive method for identifying potential security threats and assessing the risks they pose to an organization’s digital environment. By mapping out possible threat vectors and analyzing an organization’s assets, systems, and security controls, this approach helps define how potential attacks could occur, their likelihood, and the severity of their impacts. Ultimately, threat modeling allows teams to design defenses that focus on the most critical areas, ensuring that resources are used effectively to protect valuable assets.
In this guide, we’ll explore a step-by-step threat modeling process and key frameworks like STRIDE-LM and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Additionally, we’ll look at sample models, including those for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems and Industrial Control Systems (ICS).
