APPLICATION THREAT MODELING

A Proactive Approach
to Application Security

We use application threat modeling solutions to help identify potential flaws and threats within your applications to create apps that are secure by design.

Secure Your Applications
APPLICATION THREAT MODELING OVERVIEW

Shift Left in the Software Development
Lifecycle (SDLC)

Application threat modeling is a cost-effective way to “shift left” in the SDLC. We use application threat modeling solutions to help you identify design flaws and potential threats in your applications—before you spend time on the application or feature development—as well as developing effective compensating security controls to mitigate those threats. Our application threat modeling service supports and educates developers to better understand the application attack surface and where security controls need to be matured to counter threats and reduce risk.

Reveal Application Security Risks

Identify Application Vulnerabilities

Understand Potential Attack Paths

THREAT MODELING COMPONENTS

Analyze Application Design to Identify Vulnerabilities

Our Application Threat Modeling helps you think like a hacker: we adopt the same perspective as malicious hackers to gauge how much of an impact potential threat agents may cause.

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

  • Review of application architecture diagrams and design documents to bring to light potential vulnerabilities that are present in your applications
  • Expert-led whiteboarding sessions with your key stakeholders to identify key data flows and application entry points
  • Review of the attack surface and sensitive data flows to identify possible attack paths and threats that real-world threat actors may potentially use to negatively impact your applications
  • Validate that your current security controls are appropriate enough to mitigate risk and where it is necessary to build in additional security controls
  • Custom data flow diagrams, attack trees, asset summaries, listing of threat actors, security control summaries and a prioritized list of possible threats
  • Create and regularly update your threat models to ensure your frameworks remain one step ahead of threat actors that can negatively impact your applications
APPLICATION THREAT MODELING ANALYSIS

Build Security Into Your Applications

Our application threat models, which include mobile application threat modeling and web application threat modeling, enhance the security of any product as it relates to potential areas of security risk, whether or not application testing is possible. We evaluate applications against industry-leading practices from OWASP, NIST and SANS and align security threats to the six categories found in Microsoft’s STRIDE methodology:

  • Spoofing
  • Tampering
  • Repudiation
  • Information Disclosure
  • Denial of Service
  • Elevation of Privilege
APPLICATION THREAT MODELING BENEFITS

Threat Modeling is a Key Enabler of DevSecOps

Many traditional AppSec capabilities are not optimized for Agile release cycles:

  • Application scanning technologies take time to run and produce false positives, which take manual effort to triage
  • Penetration testing occurs too late in the release cycle
  • Most attempts at shifting left result in additional developer burden
  • Current testing tools are not able to test for emerging threats

While more effort has been placed on automation, this approach results in security bottlenecks in the build and deploy process. Organizations that have been successful in embracing DevSecOps tend to share one thing in common — they have a mature Threat Modeling capability and security is baked into their products.

CYBERSECURITY CERTIFICATIONS

Your Elite, Highly-trained Team

Every member of GuidePoint’s Application Security Practice offers a wealth of expertise stemming from years of relevant, real-world experience within the application layer from technical and strategic perspectives. 

We have a unique ability to understand the threats your applications face and can play a vital role in helping to mature or align your security posture.

Why GuidePoint?

Highly Trained, Highly Certified

Examples Include:

GPS Certified Cyber Guarding
CISSP

SANS & ISC2

OSCP
OSCE

Offensive Security

GSE
GWAPT

Global Information Assurance

APPLICATION THREAT MODELING OUTCOMES

Scale Your Application Security While Avoiding Costly Design Flaws

Our Application Security Threat Modeling services will help you partner with your development teams and provide education on the use of security leading practices. This allows you to scale your security efforts while avoiding costly design flaws that are difficult to fix once the application has already been deployed to production.

Understand Your Design

Know what’s included in the application by leveraging a structured process.

Identify Potential Attack Paths

Think like a hacker to uncover possible attack paths and  vulnerabilities.

Quantify Remediation

Prioritize remediation efforts to focus on the most actionable items.

Create Security Requirements

Ensure specific controls are in place and if any others should be considered.

Your Trusted Advisor

Our team works side-by-side with you as your cybersecurity partner.

“GuidePoint Security is basically family. They’re always there when I need them. At the end of the day GuidePoint is always there to help and that’s how they add value.”

Mark Gilman

Security Manager

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