About Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
If you're a software developer, systems manager, or security professional, this book will show you how to use threat modeling in the security development lifecycle and the overall software and systems design processes. Author and security expert Adam Shostack puts his considerable expertise to work in this book that, unlike any other, details the process of building improved security into the design of software, computer services, and systems — from the very beginning.
- Find and fix security issues before they hurt you or your customers
- Learn to use practical and actionable tools, techniques, and approaches for software developers, IT professionals, and security enthusiasts
- Explore the nuances of software-centric threat modeling and discover its application to software and systems during the build phase and beyond
- Apply threat modeling to improve security when managing complex systems (or even simple ones!)
- Manage potential threats using a structured, methodical framework
- Discover and discern evolving security threats
- Use specific, actionable advice regardless of software type, operating system, or program approaches and techniques validated and proven to be effective at Microsoft and other top IT companies
Threat Modeling: Designing for Security is full of actionable, tested advice for software developers, systems architects and managers, and security professionals. From the very first chapter, it teaches the reader how to threat model. That is, how to use models to predict and prevent problems, even before you've started coding.
Threat Modeling: Designing for Security is jargon-free, accessible, and provides proven frameworks that are designed to integrate into real projects that need to ship on tight schedules. You can get value from threat model all sorts of things, even as simple as a contact us page (and see that page for that threat model.)
In praise of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
"Probably the best IT security book of the year" — Bruce Schneier
"The book also discusses the different ways of modeling software to
address threats, as well as techniques and tools to
find those threats...Overall, this is an excellent volume that
should be examined by most developers concerned with
issues of security."
— Gastón Hillar, reviewing for the Jolt Awards |
"Shostack envisions the process of threat modeling as a way of
integrating security principles into the development
process and make developers active participants in
identifying and fixing vulnerabilities before the
product reaches the door."
— Richard Austin, reviewing for IEEE Cipher |
"Even if you've never coded a line of software in your life,
and you don't know spoofing from a denial of
service attack, you'll have an excellent
understanding of what threat modelers do, and why it's
important, after reading this book."
— Michael Whitener, reviewing for the IAPP (Int'l Association of Privacy Professionals) |
Recent accolades include Digital Guardian's The Best Resources for InfoSec Skillbuilding (December, 2018) and the 2018 Summer Reading List from Outsystems Engineering.
Upcoming or Recent Events
Blackhat 2018 (August, Las Vegas)
Adam will be speaking at Blackhat 2018, on "Threat Modeling in 2018: Attacks, Impacts and Other Updates."DevSecCon (September, Boston)
Adam will deliver a 2-day training session after DevSecCon. Details are at Threat Modeling by Adam Shostack.
Corporate Training
Organizations working to deliver more secure products and services are hiring Adam to deliver training in threat modeling and secure development lifecycles (SDL/SDLC). If you're interested please reach out via the contact us page.