Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment
Systematic approach to identify, analyse, and prioritise potential threats to your organisation. We conduct threat modeling and risk assessments to uncover vulnerabilities, assess risks, and provide actionable strategies to mitigate potential impacts.
Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment: A Comprehensive Approach to Cybersecurity
Threat modeling is a methodical process employed in the realm of cybersecurity to identify, assess, and prioritise potential threats that may target a system, application, or organisation. It entails a systematic analysis of valuable assets, existing vulnerabilities, and possible attack avenues, enabling a comprehensive understanding of the associated risks and their implications.
Threat Modeling
Proactive Approach
Identifies potential threats and vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This is typically done during the design or development phase of a system.
Focuses on Scenarios
Uses hypothetical attack scenarios to understand how attackers might target a system's weaknesses. These scenarios help pinpoint vulnerabilities in data flow and system architecture.
Benefits:
Improved understanding of system security posture
Early identification and mitigation of security risks
Better collaboration on security among development teams
Interceptica provides both Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment Services
Threat Modeling services
Threat Modeling Workshops
Our Security consultants can facilitate workshops to guide your team through the threat modeling process for specific systems or applications. This can involve brainstorming attack scenarios, identifying vulnerabilities, and documenting mitigation strategies.
STRIDE-based Threat Modeling
This is a structured methodology that focuses on different categories of threats (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial-of-Service, and Elevation of Privilege). Interceptica’s security consultants can help you apply STRIDE to your systems.
Attack Trees and DREAD Analysis
These techniques help visualise potential attack paths and assess the likelihood and severity (DREAD stands for Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected Users, and Discoverability) of different threats. Security consultants can guide you through creating and analysing these models.
Continuous Threat Modeling
Some companies offer services to integrate threat modeling into your software development lifecycle (SDLC). This allows for ongoing threat identification and mitigation as your systems evolve.
Risk Assessment
Focuses on likelihood and impact
Evaluate the probability of a threat occurring and the potential damage it could cause. This helps prioritise security investments.
Considers existing controls
Takes into account the security measures already in place to mitigate risks.
Risk Assessment Services
Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing (VAPT)
Our security professionals scan your systems for known vulnerabilities and simulate real-world attacks to identify exploitable weaknesses. The results can then be fed into a risk assessment to determine the severity of the findings.
Quantitative Risk Assessment
This approach assigns a numerical value to the likelihood and impact of different threats, allowing for more objective risk prioritisation. Security consultants can help you develop and implement a quantitative risk assessment methodology.
Compliance Risk Assessments
If your organisation needs to comply with specific industry regulations (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS), security consultants can help assess your compliance posture and identify any security risks that could lead to non-compliance.