Shostack + Friends Blog

Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of slavery in the US. We need more holidays that celebrate freedom. Freedom isn't always comfortable or easy, but it is the precondition to the pursuit of happiness. (19 Jun 2020)

I'm happy to announce Shostack + Associate's new, first, corporate white paper! It uses Jenga to explain why threat modeling efforts fail so often. (16 Jun 2020)

I want to call out some impressive aspects of a report by Proofpoint. (14 Jun 2020)

The Sonatype 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey is a really interesting report. Most interesting to me is the importance of effective communication, with both tools and human communication in developer happiness. (12 Jun 2020)

Contextualisation of Data Flow Diagrams for security analysis is a new paper to which I contributed. (09 Jun 2020)

There's an interesting new draft, Best Practices for IoT Security: What Does That Even Mean? by Christopher Bellman and Paul C. van Oorschot. (08 Jun 2020)

Check out “The Need for Evidence Based Security” by Chris Frenz. (04 Jun 2020)

I generally try to stay on technical topics, because my understanding is that's what readers want. But events are overwhelming and I believe that not speaking out is now a political choice. (03 Jun 2020)

As I built out my home studio to record videos for my distributed classes, I was lucky enough to be able to find an in-stock HDMI capture card, but those are harder and harder to find. As it turns out, you may be able to avoid the need for that with a mix of apps. (28 May 2020)

Phil Bull presents an interesting, generally convincing, argument in 'Why you can ignore reviews of scientific code by commercial software developers', with a couple of exceptions. (26 May 2020)

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. (20 May 2020)

For Threat Model Thursday, I want to look at models and modeling in a tremendously high-stakes space: COVID models. (14 May 2020)

Most of my time, I'm helping organizations develop the skills and discipline to build security in. We give the best advice available, and I recognize that we're early in developing the science around how to build an SDL that works. (11 May 2020)

I want to talk about two books: Bounce, by Matthew Syed and Range, by David Epstein. I want to talk about them together in part because Range is explicitly framed as a response to Bounce. (08 May 2020)

This week's threat model Thursday looks at an academic paper, Security Threat Modeling: Are Data Flow Diagrams Enough? by Laurens Sion and colleagues. (23 Apr 2020)