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Level 4: Reliability, security & cloud · L4.4 Security architecture

Threat modeling a design

Find trust boundaries and top threats in a diagram.

11 min · Pro

What you take away

  • A trust boundary is any place the level of trust changes; threats live on the boundaries, not inside the boxes.

And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.

How the class is laid out

  1. The problem
  2. Draw the lines, then look at what crosses them
  3. AuthN and authZ
  4. OAuth and OIDC
  5. Zero trust
  6. Tenancy
  7. Threat modeling
  8. Check your understanding