Zen Of Threat Modeling

These are the observations of the warrior monk Itzairo Taran-Da-Chi, of the CTM-Ryu school, musing about the experiences and people along the road to Reasonable Security.

• The man who threat models his friends' systems will collect the bounty. But the man who threat models his own systems will sleep the whole night.
• Life is navigating your own threat model and only appearing on other people's as a mitigation to threats.
• What is the color of what you're building? What is the taste of what could go wrong? What sounds does what you can do about it makes? A threat model fulfills every sense.
• You did good if you did well.
• Before threat modeling, chop wood, carry water. After threat modeling, chop wood, carry water.
• If a threat turns into a vulnerability but there was no impact, was it a threat?
• What sound does a no-alert design make?
• A threat model of a thousand systems begins with a single question.
• The threat model pointing at the flaw is not the flaw.
• Threat model rather than be threatened by a model.
• When the mind becomes still, the design sings and the flaws cough.
• A life well threat modeled is a life well lived.
• You can ask a LLM, but it can't answer.