What Is Threat Modeling? | PlexTrac
What Is Threat Modeling?
Threat modeling is a process that uncovers, assesses, and addresses vulnerabilities using hypothetical scenarios, system diagrams, and testing. Beyond securing systems, networks, and applications, it can also safeguard IoT and mobile devices. To be effective, the approach should be customized to fit an organization’s specific systems and processes. Security teams can use threat modeling as a proactive security approach to reinforce defenses and stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Why Is Threat Modeling Important?
Threat modeling is important to securing an organization’s attack surfaces—from digital and cloud-based systems to mobile devices and the internet of things (IoT). Threats ranging from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) to supply chain attacks and internal threats must be monitored and regulated to identify weaknesses and mitigate threats before exploitation.
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What Are the Benefits and Challenges of Threat Modeling?
Benefits of threat modeling include:
- Enhancing risk prioritization to help organizations allocate resources
- Providing an overall view of systems through data flow diagrams (DFDs) and graphical attack path representations
- Helping IT teams get deeper insights into network security and architecture
- Enabling better collaboration across security teams and executive members
Challenges of threat modeling include:
- It can hinder programs if not integrated early in the development and security lifecycle
- Some system architecture and attack surfaces may not be accounted for or managed
- Predicting threat likelihood and impact can be difficult in complex environments
How Can PlexTrac Enhance Threat Modeling Efforts?
PlexTrac delivers an exposure assessment platform that enables managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprises to maximize their threat modeling efforts through optimizing security workflows and reporting, providing attack path visualizations, prioritizing remediation with contextual risk scoring, and quantifying business impact.
PlexTrac’s platform streamlines the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) lifecycle by:
- Creating a comprehensive data intelligence layer from exposure assessment data sources such as pentest tools, vulnerability scanners, and attack surface management platforms
- Streamlining reporting and prioritizing remediation
- Delivering offensive security workflow automation to enhance collaboration
- Accelerating mean time to remediation and demonstrating offensive security ROI
- Preventing risk recurrence by triggering re-testing and validation
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