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Application Threat Modeling

Identify potential vulnerabilities and threats in your applications to ensure they are built secure by design.

A Proactive Approach to Application Security

O ur application threat modeling solutions enable you to identify design flaws and potential threats early—before investing resources in application or feature development. This service empowers developers by enhancing their understanding of the application’s attack surface and pinpointing areas where security controls need to be strengthened to mitigate threats and reduce risks. Through this proactive approach, we uncover security risks, vulnerabilities, and potential attack paths, equipping your team to build more secure applications from the start.
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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). By incorporating Application Threat Modeling into your process, you can:

  • Identify design-related flaws and potential threats to your application early.
  • Develop effective compensating security controls to mitigate these threats.
  • Ensure due diligence in addressing security risks within your environment, providing peace of mind.

Our Application Threat Modeling services empower your development teams with education on security leading practices, fostering collaboration and scalability. This approach helps you strengthen your security posture while avoiding costly and challenging design flaws that can be difficult to address once the application is in production.

Build Security Into Your Applications

Our application threat modeling services, including mobile and web application threat modeling, strengthen the security of your products by addressing potential security risks, even in scenarios where application testing is not feasible. We assess applications against industry-leading standards such as OWASP, NIST, and SANS, and categorize security threats based on Microsoft’s STRIDE methodology:

  • Spoofing
  • Tampering
  • Repudiation
  • Information Disclosure
  • Denial of Service
  • Elevation of Privilege

Our approach helps you:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of your system's design through a structured process.
  • Identify possible attack paths and vulnerabilities.
  • Quantify and prioritize remediation efforts.
  • Define clear security requirements.
  • Determine where additional security controls should be implemented.

This process ensures that security is seamlessly integrated into your applications from the ground up.

Threat Modeling: A Key Enabler of DevSecOps

Traditional application security methods often struggle to keep pace with Agile release cycles:

  • Application scanning technologies are time-consuming and prone to false positives, requiring manual triage.
  • Penetration testing occurs too late in the release cycle to be effective.
  • Shifting security left often increases the burden on developers.
  • Existing testing tools are ill-equipped to address emerging threats.

While automation has improved some processes, it frequently introduces security bottlenecks during the build and deploy phases.

Organizations that successfully adopt DevSecOps share a critical success factor: a mature Threat Modeling capability. By embedding security into their products from the design phase, these organizations eliminate bottlenecks, address vulnerabilities proactively, and seamlessly integrate security into the software development lifecycle.

Our Application Security Threat Modeling Service

We use proven threat modeling methodologies and tools to analyze your application designs, helping you identify existing vulnerabilities. Our approach encourages you to think like a hacker—adopting the perspective of malicious actors to assess the potential impact of various threats.

With our Application Threat Modeling service, you receive a comprehensive assessment that includes:

  • A thorough review of application architecture diagrams and design documents to uncover potential vulnerabilities in your applications.
  • Expert-led whiteboarding sessions with your key stakeholders to identify critical data flows and application entry points.
  • An examination of the attack surface and sensitive data flows to pinpoint possible attack paths and threats that real-world threat actors may exploit to compromise your applications.
  • Validation that your existing security controls are adequate to mitigate risk, along with recommendations for additional controls where necessary.
  • Custom data flow diagrams, attack trees, asset summaries, threat actor lists, security control summaries, and a prioritized list of potential threats.
  • Ongoing creation and updates to your threat models to ensure your frameworks stay ahead of evolving threats that could negatively impact your applications.

This service ensures your application security is continuously refined, helping you proactively address vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of successful attacks.