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The OWASP Threat Model Project

This is a documentation project. We provide information on threat modeling techniques for web and cloud, with a focus on current and emerging techniques.

Most threat model methodologies answer one or more of the following questions:

What are we building?
What can go wrong?
What are we going to do about that?
Did we do a good enough job?

This project will gather techniques, methodologies, tools and examples. We will group these using the four questions. This will allow people to easily find advice they can use.

Example: if you are looking for different diagramming techniques you will want to look for all the techniques answering question 1.

Guiding principles:

This project follows a number of principles that all contributions must adhere to:

We are vendor, methodology and tool independent: we strive to have examples in as many methodologies and/or tools as possible
Open discussion is promoted: all topics are open for discussion with just one rule: don't be a dick. If you feel information is lacking or missing, let us know via the OWASP Threat Model slack channel.
We come to an agreement: we discuss things mainly in google docs and on slack, if the project leaders feel a concensus is made, we will publish the content to our main website. All published content can be changed by submitting change requests on the Github repository that serves the website

Licensing

All information in this project is free to use. In fact sharing is encouraged!!!

Additionally, we also encourage you to contribute back to the project. We have no monopoly on this knowledge; however, we all have pieces of this knowledge from our experience. Let's begin by putting our individual pieces together to make something great. Great things happen when people work together.

The OWASP Threat Model Project information are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

Presentation

None

Project Leader

Related Projects

Contact Us

The easiest way to get in contact with the OWASP Threat Model community is through the OWASP Slack Threat model channel (#threat-modeling):

https://owasp.slack.com/messages/C1CS3C6AF

If you are not yet a member of the OWASP Slack community, you can subscribe at https://owaspslack.com/

Quick Download

None

News and Events

[10 Nov 2017] Public release of the project

In Print

None

Classifications

How can I participate in your project?

All you have to do is make the Project Leader's aware of your available time to contribute to the project. It is also important to let the Leader's know how you would like to contribute and pitch in to help the project meet it's goals and milestones. There are many different ways you can contribute to an OWASP Project, but communication with the leads is key.

The best way to achieve this is to join the OWASP threat modeling slack channel at https://owasp.slack.com/messages/C1CS3C6AF

If you are not yet a member of the OWASP Slack community, you can subscribe at https://owasp.herokuapp.com/

If I am not a threat modeler can I participate in your project?

Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a threat modeler. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers, writers, graphic designers, and people who want to learn about threat modeling.

Contributors

The OWASP Security Principles project is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. A live update of project contributors is found here.

The first contributors to the project were:

2017 - 11: Release website with info that was agreed upon during the OWASP 2017 Summit in London, add links to google docs for all open content
2017 - 12: Add all content from summit, contributor list and examples
2018 - 01: Add contributor list, finish cheat sheets
2018 - 02: Finish agile TM implementation suggestions for SCRUM and Kanban, start TM history
2018 - 03: Start TM resources for tools, articles and books

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-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.--><span style="color:#ff0000">
+==The OWASP Threat Model Project==
-	Instructions are in RED text and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags. This document is intended to serve as an example of what is required of an OWASP project wiki page. The text in red serves as instructions, while the text in black serves as an example. Text in black is expected to be replaced entirely with information specific to your OWASP project.
-</span>
-==The OWASP Security Principles==
+This is a documentation project. We provide information on threat modeling techniques for web and cloud, with a focus on current and emerging techniques.
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+Most threat model methodologies answer one or more of the following questions:
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
+# What are we building?
-	This is where you need to add your more robust project description. A project description should outline the purpose of the project, and the value it provides to application security. Ideally, project descriptions should be written in such a way that there is no question what value the project provides to the software security community. This section will be seen and used in various places within the Projects Portal. Poorly written project descriptions therefore detract from a project’s visibility, and project leaders should ensure that the description is meaningful.
+# What can go wrong?
-</span>
+# What are we going to do about that?
+# Did we do a good enough job?
-Inevitably applications are designed with security principles architects knew about, security folks included. However, as this project demonstrates there are far more than just a 'few' principles, most of which never make it into the design.
+This project will gather techniques, methodologies, tools and examples. We will group these using the four questions. This will allow people to easily find advice they can use.
-For example, security design happens with perhaps a handful of principles:
+Example: if you are looking for different diagramming techniques you will want to look for all the techniques answering question 1.
-* Least Privilege
+'''Guiding principles:'''
-* Perimeter Security
-* Defence in Depth
-However, we regularly see designs without '''separation of privilege'''!
+This project follows a number of principles that all contributions must adhere to:
+# We are vendor, methodology and tool independent: we strive to have examples in as many methodologies and/or tools as possible
-Think about that, most web applications today have all their eggs in a single basket. The business logic, the identities, passwords, products, policy enforcement, security rules are all found in the same application database that makes up the typical website! It is little wonder then, that attacks on the database have been so completely devastating, since there is no separation of privilege!
+# Open discussion is promoted: all topics are open for discussion with just one rule: don't be a dick. If you feel information is lacking or missing, let us know via the OWASP Threat Model slack channel.
+# We come to an agreement: we discuss things mainly in google docs and on slack, if the project leaders feel a concensus is made, we will publish the content to our main website. All published content can be changed by submitting change requests on the Github repository that serves the website
-The aim of this project, is to identify and describe a minimum functional set of principles that must be present in a secure design.
-==Description==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	This section must include a shorter description of what the project is, why the project was started, and what security issue is being helped by the project deliverable. This description will be used to promote the project so make sure the description represents your project in the best way possible.
-</span>
-To be the source of all information threat model related including but not limited to cheat sheets, examples, new techniques and processes
-'''Although this is a sample template, the project is real! [http://owasp.github.io/Security-Principles Please contribute to this project.]'''
-Over the course of my career, I have come across and collected a number of security ''aphorisms.'' These aphorisms constitute the fundamental principles of information security.
-None of the ideas or truths are mine, and unfortunately, I did not collect the citations. Initially, I would like to identify the correct citations for each aphorism.
-Additionally, many are re-statements of the same idea; thus, the 'collection of ideas' defines a fundamental principle. As such, I would also like to reverse engineer the principles from the aphorisms where appropriate, as well.
 ==Licensing==
+'''All information in this project is free to use. In fact sharing is encouraged!!!'''
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+Additionally, we also encourage you to contribute back to the project. We have no monopoly on this knowledge; however, we all have pieces of this knowledge from our experience. Let's begin by putting our individual pieces together to make something great. Great things happen when people work together.
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	A project must be licensed under a community friendly or open source license.  For more information on OWASP recommended licenses, please see [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Licenses OWASP Licenses]. While OWASP does not promote any particular license over another, the vast majority of projects have chosen a Creative Commons license variant for documentation projects, or a GNU General Public License variant for tools and code projects.
-</span>
-'''The OWASP Security Principles are free to use. In fact it is encouraged!!!'''
+The OWASP Threat Model Project information are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
-'' Additionally, I also encourage you to contribute back to the project. I have no monopoly on this knowledge; however, we all have pieces of this knowledge from our experience. Let's begin by putting our individual pieces together to make something great. Great things happen when people work together.''
-The OWASP Security Principles are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
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-== What is OWASP Security Principles Project? ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	Here you should add a short description of what your project actually does. What is the primary goal of your project, and why is it important?
-</span>
-The end goal is to identify, cite, and document the fundamental principles of information security. Once this is well organised, I think it would be great to publish this through the [http://scriptogr.am/dennis-groves/post/owasp-press OWASP Press]. Of course, it will always remain freely available, and any money collected will go directly into the project to absorb costs with any remaining funds going to the OWASP Foundation.
-This document should serve as a guide to technical architects and designers outlining the fundamental principles of security.
 == Presentation ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+None
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	This is where you can link to slide presentations related to your project.
-</span>
-[https://2017.appsecusa.org/ AppSec USA 2017]
 == Project Leader ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+* [mailto:steven.wierckx@owasp.org Steven Wierckx]
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
+* [mailto:avi.douglen@owasp.org Avi Douglen]
-	A project leader is the individual who decides to lead the project throughout its lifecycle. The project leader is responsible for communicating the project’s progress to the OWASP Foundation, and he/she is ultimately responsible for the project’s deliverables. The project leader must provide OWASP with his/her real name and contact e-mail address for his/her project application to be accepted, as OWASP prides itself on the openness of its products, operations, and members.
-</span>
-* [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/User:Dennis_Groves Dennis Groves]
-* Project Leader name, Steven Wierckx
-* Project Leader email address, [[Mailto:swierckx@gmail.com|swierckx@gmail.com]]
-* Replace with OWASP Email
 == Related Projects ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+* [[OWASP Threat Dragon]]
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
+* [[OWASP Cloud Security Project]]
-	This is where you can link to other OWASP Projects that are similar to yours.
-</span>
-* [[OWASP_CISO_Survey]]
+== Contact Us ==
+The easiest way to get in contact with the OWASP Threat Model community is through the OWASP Slack Threat model channel (#threat-modeling):
-== Openhub ==
+https://owasp.slack.com/messages/C1CS3C6AF
-* [https://www.openhub.net/orgs/OWASP OWASP Project Openhub]
+If you are not yet a member of the OWASP Slack community, you can subscribe at https://owaspslack.com/
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+None
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	This is where you can link to your repository.
-</span>
-The home of the OWASP Security Principles is on [https://github.com/OWASP/Security-Principles GitHub.] You are encourged to fork, edit and push your changes back to the project through git or edit the project directly on github.
-However, if you like you may also download the master repository from the following links:
-https://github.com/OWASP/Threat-Model-Project
-* [https://github.com/OWASP/Security-Principles/zipball/master .zip file.]
-* [https://github.com/OWASP/Security-Principles/tarball/master .tgz file.]
 == News and Events ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+* [10 Nov 2017] Public release of the project
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	This is where you can link to press your project has been a part of. Appropriate press includes: Project Leader interviews, articles written about your project, and videos about your project.
-</span>
-* [20 Nov 2013] News 2
-* [30 Sep 2013] News 1
 == In Print ==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+None
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	This is where you place links to where your project product can be downloaded or purchased, in the case of a book.
-</span>
-This project can be purchased as a print on demand book from Lulu.com
 ==Classifications==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	Here is where you can let the community know what project stage your project is currently in, whether the project is a builder, breaker, or defender project, and what type of project you are running.
-</span>
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 =FAQs=
+==How can I participate in your project?==
+All you have to do is make the Project Leader's aware of your available time to contribute to the project. It is also important to let the Leader's know how you would like to contribute and pitch in to help the project meet it's goals and milestones. There are many different ways you can contribute to an OWASP Project, but communication with the leads is key.
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+The best way to achieve this is to join the OWASP threat modeling slack channel at https://owasp.slack.com/messages/C1CS3C6AF
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	Many projects have "Frequently Asked Questions" documents or pages. However, the point of such a document is not the questions. ''The point of a document like this are the '''answers'''''. The document contains the answers that people would otherwise find themselves giving over and over again. The idea is that rather than laboriously compose and post the same answers repeatedly, people can refer to this page with pre-prepared answers. Use this space to communicate your projects 'Frequent Answers.'
-</span>
+If you are not yet a member of the OWASP Slack community, you can subscribe at https://owasp.herokuapp.com/
-==How can I participate in your project?==
+==If I am not a threat modeler can I participate in your project?==
-All you have to do is make the Project Leader's aware of your available time to contribute to the project. It is also important to let the Leader's know how you would like to contribute and pitch in to help the project meet it's goals and milestones. There are many different ways you can contribute to an OWASP Project, but communication with the leads is key.
+Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a threat modeler. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers, writers, graphic designers, and people who want to learn about threat modeling.
-==If I am not a programmer can I participate in your project?==
-Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a programmer or technical. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers, writers, graphic designers, and a project administrator.
 = Acknowledgements =
 ==Contributors==
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	The success of OWASP is due to a community of enthusiasts and contributors that work to make our projects great. This is also true for the success of your project.
-Be sure to give credit where credit is due, no matter how small! This should be a brief list of the most amazing people involved in your project.
-Be sure to provide a link to a complete list of all the amazing people in your project's community as well.
-</span>
 The OWASP Security Principles project is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. A live update of project  [https://github.com/OWASP/Security-Principles/graphs/contributors contributors is found here].
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 The first contributors to the project were:
-* [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/User:Dennis_Groves Dennis Groves]
+*
-* [https://github.com/sublimino Andrew Martin]
-* [https://github.com/Lambdanaut Josh Thomas]
-* '''YOUR NAME BELONGS HERE'''
-= Road Map and Getting Involved =
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	A project roadmap is the envisioned plan for the project. The purpose of the roadmap is to help others understand where the project is going. It gives the community a chance to understand the context and the vision for the goal of the project. Additionally, if a project becomes inactive, or if the project is abandoned, a roadmap can help ensure a project can be adopted and continued under new leadership.
-</span>
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
-	Roadmaps vary in detail from a broad outline to a fully detailed project charter. Generally speaking, projects with detailed roadmaps have tended to develop into successful projects. Some details that leaders may consider placing in the roadmap include: envisioned milestones, planned feature enhancements, essential conditions, project assumptions, development timelines, etc. You are required to have at least 4 milestones for every year the project is active.
-</span>
-* September: create website, October: add all cheat sheets / complete structure, November: add contributor list, history and examples, December: add all content from summit
-* Project links (if any) to external sites, While waiting for the project we have started the following discussions that will be start of the content provided: <nowiki>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gaUnmmXc4pcmgeWytKKfEDazVEX9xfk22roz_aoryeA/edit</nowiki> and <nowiki>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dV1xmKluj2repYujj9CeOZC0jmJ4az-r5JyJG7erVQc/edit</nowiki> Also content created during the OWASP Summit of 2017: <nowiki>https://owaspsummit.org/Working-Sessions/Threat-Model/index.html</nowiki>
-As of October 2013, the priorities are:
-* Finish the referencing for each principle.
-* Update the Project Template.
-* Use the OWASP Press to develop a book.
-* Finish and publish the book on Lulu.
-Involvement in the development and promotion of the OWASP Security Principles Project is actively encouraged!
-You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.
-Some of the ways you can help:
-* Helping find references to some of the principles.
-* Project administration support.
-* Wiki editing support.
-* Writing support for the book.
-=Project About=
-<!-- Instructions are in RED and should be removed from your document by deleting the text with the span tags.-->
+= Road Map =
-<span style="color:#ff0000">
+* 2017 - 11: Release website with info that was agreed upon during the OWASP 2017 Summit in London, add links to google docs for all open content
-	This page is where you need to place your legacy project template page if your project was created before October 2013. To edit this page you will need to edit your project information template. You can typically find this page by following this address and substituting your project name where it says "OWASP_Example_Project". When in doubt, ask the OWASP Projects Manager.
+* 2017 - 12: Add all content from summit, contributor list and examples
-Example template page: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Projects/OWASP_Example_Project
+* 2018 - 01: Add contributor list, finish cheat sheets
-</span>
+* 2018 - 02: Finish agile TM implementation suggestions for SCRUM and Kanban, start TM history
+* 2018 - 03: Start TM resources for tools, articles and books
-{{:Projects/OWASP_Example_Project_About_Page}}
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