Agile Whiteboard Hacking – aka Hands-on Threat Modeling

We levelled up the threat modeling war game. Engaged in CTF-style challenges, your team will battle for control over an offshore wind turbine park.

The level of this training is Beginner/Intermediate. Participants who are new to threat modeling are advised to follow our self-paced Threat Modeling Introduction training (which is about 2 hours and is included in this training).

As highly skilled professionals with years of experience under our belts, we're intimately familiar with the gap between academic knowledge of threat modeling and real-world practice. To minimize that gap, we have developed practical use cases, based on real-world projects. Each use case includes a description of the environment, together with questions and templates to build a threat model.

Students will be challenged in groups of 3 to 4 people to perform the different stages of threat modeling:

• Diagram techniques applied on a travel booking service
• Threat model a cloud-based update service for an IoT kiosk
• Create an attack tree against a nuclear research facility
• Create a SOC Risk Based Alerting system with MITRE ATT&CK
• Mitigate threats in a payment service build with microservices and S3 buckets
• Apply data protection by design and default on a loyalty app
• Apply the OWASP Threat Modeling Playbook on agile development
• Threat modeling the CI/CD pipeline
• Battle for control over "Zwarte Wind", an offshore wind turbine park

After each hands-on exercise, the results are discussed, and students receive a documented solution. All participants get our Threat Modeling Playbook to improve you threat modeling practice, and a one-year access to our online threat modeling learning platform.

As part of this training, you will be asked to create and submit your own threat model, on which you will get feedback. One month after the training we organize an individual coaching session with all the participants.

Course Syllabus/Outline

Agile Whiteboard Hacking - aka Hands-on Threat Modeling - Course Outline

Threat modeling introduction
• Threat modeling in a secure development lifecycle
• What is threat modeling?
• Why perform threat modeling?
• Threat modeling stages
• Different threat modeling methodologies
• Document a threat model
Diagrams – what are you building?
• Understanding context
• Doomsday scenarios
• Data flow diagrams
• Trust boundaries
• Sequence and state diagrams
• Advanced diagrams
• Hands-on: Diagram techniques applied on a travel booking service
Identifying threats – what can go wrong?
• STRIDE introduction
• STRIDE threats
• Hands-on: Threat model a cloud-based update service for an IoT kiosk
• Attack trees
• Hands-on: Create an attack tree against a nuclear research facility
• Attack libraries
• MITRE ATT&CK
• Hands-on: Create a SOC Risk Based Alerting system with MITRE ATT&CK

Addressing each threat
• How to address threats
• Mitigation patterns
• Value of standard mitigations
• Setting priorities through risk calculation
• Risk management
• Threat agents
• The mitigation process
• Hands-on: Mitigate threats in a payment service build with microservices and S3 buckets
Threat modeling and compliance
• How to marry threat modeling with compliance
• GDPR and Privacy by design
• Privacy threats
• LINDUNN and Mitigating privacy threats
• Threat modeling medical devices
• Threat modeling Industrial Control Systems (IEC 62443)
• Threat Assessment and Remediation Analysis for automotive (TARA, SAE 21434)
• Mapping threat modeling on compliance frameworks
• Hands-on: Apply data protection by design and default on a loyalty app
Advanced threat modeling
• Typical steps and variations
• Validation threat models
• Effective threat model workshops
• Communicating threat models
• Agile and DevOps threat modeling
• Improving your practice with the Threat Modeling Playbook
• Scaling up threat modeling
• Hands-on: Apply the OWASP Threat Modeling Playbook on agile development
• Hands-on: Threat modeling the CI/CD pipeline
Threat modeling resources
• Open-Source tools
• Commercial tools
• General tools
• Threat modeling tools compared
Examination
• Hands-on examination
• Grading and certification
Battle for control over "Zwarte Wind", an offshore wind turbine park
Red team versus Blue team battle for control over an offshore wind turbine park

Review session (online coaching session after 1 month)
• Hand-in of your own threat model
• Individual feedback on your threat model
• Review session