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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:

1. What are we building?
2. What can go wrong?
3. What are we going to do about that?
4. 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:

1. We are vendor, methodology and tool independent: we strive to have examples in as many methodologies and/or tools as possible
2. 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.
3. 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

• Steven Wierckx
• Avi Douglen

Related Projects

• OWASP Threat Dragon
• OWASP Cloud Security Project

Openhub

• OWASP Project Openhub

Quick Download

None

News and Events

• [10 Nov 2017] Public release of the project

In Print

None

Classifications