Application Threat Modeling
Identify potential flaws and threats within your applications to create apps that are secure by design.
A Proactive Approach to Application Security
We use application threat modeling solutions to help you identify design flaws and potential threats in your applications before you spend time on the application or feature development. Our application threat modeling service supports and educates developers to better understand the application attack surface and where security controls need to be matured to counter threats and reduce risk. This knowledge helps reveal security risks, vulnerabilities, and potential attack paths against the application.
Create Applications that are Secure by Design
Application threat modeling is one of the most cost-effective ways to “Shift Left” in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). With Application Threat Modeling, you can:
- Discover and identify design-related flaws and potential threats to your application
- Design effective compensating security controls to mitigate those threats
- Provide peace of mind that you have performed your due diligence to mitigate security risks in your environment
Our Application Threat Modeling services will help you partner with your development teams and provide education on the use of security leading practices, allowing you to scale your security efforts while avoiding costly design flaws that are difficult to fix once the application has already been deployed to production.
Build Security Into Your Applications
Our application threat models, which include mobile application threat modeling and web application threat modeling, enhance the security of any product as it relates to potential areas of security risk, whether or not application testing is possible. We evaluate applications against industry-leading practices from OWASP, NIST, and SANS, and align security threats to the six categories found in Microsoft’s STRIDE methodology:
- Spoofing
- Tampering
- Repudiation
- Information Disclosure
- Denial of Service
- Elevation of Privilege
We will help you:
- Understand the design of your system leveraging a structured process
- Identify possible attack paths and vulnerabilities
- Quantify and prioritize remediation
- Create security requirements
- Determine where additional security controls need to be considered
Threat Modeling is a Key Enabler of DevSecOps
Many traditional application security capabilities are not optimized for Agile release cycles:
- Application scanning technologies take time to run and produce false positives, which take manual effort to triage
- Penetration testing occurs too late in the release cycle
- Most attempts at shifting left result in additional developer burden
- Current testing tools are not able to test for emerging threats
While more effort has been placed on automation, this approach results in security bottlenecks in the build and deploy process. Organizations that have been successful in embracing DevSecOps tend to share one thing in common — they have a mature Threat Modeling capability and security is baked into their products.
Our Application Security Threat Modeling Service
We use threat modeling methodologies and tools to analyze the designs of your applications and identify existing vulnerabilities. Our threat modeling helps you think like a hacker: we adopt the same perspective as malicious hackers to gauge how much of an impact potential threat agents may cause.
With our Application Threat Modeling service, you gain a comprehensive assessment that includes:
- Review of application architecture diagrams and design documents to bring to light potential vulnerabilities that are present in your applications
- Expert-led whiteboarding sessions with your key stakeholders to identify key data flows and application entry points
- Review of the attack surface and sensitive data flows to identify possible attack paths and threats that real-world threat actors may potentially use to negatively impact your applications
- Validation that your current security controls are appropriate enough to mitigate risk and where it is necessary to build in additional security controls
- Custom data flow diagrams, attack trees, asset summaries, listing of threat actors, security control summaries, and a prioritized list of possible threats
- Create and regularly update your threat models to ensure your frameworks remain one step ahead of threat actors that can negatively impact your applications
Certifications
Put an ELITE Highly-Trained Team on Your Side
More than 70% of our workforce consists of tenured cybersecurity engineers, architects and consultants
SANS GIAC-Cyber Guardian
CISSP
OSCP
OSCE
GSE
GPEN
GWAPT