Threat Modeling Protocols

Threat Modeling Protocols

When Your Protocol's State Machine Ignores Race Conditions as Attack Vectors

Race conditions are often dismissed as low-level concurrency bugs—something for kernel developers, not protocol designers. But when a state equipment ...

Threat Modeling Protocols

What to Fix First When Your Threat Model Assumes a Static Attack Surface

You built a threat model six months ago. It was thorough—you mapped data flows, identified trust boundaries, ranked risks. But since then, your infra ...

Threat Modeling Protocols

Choosing Trust Boundaries Without the Implicit Perimeter Assumption

Most threat models I see launch with a rectangle around the whole setup. That rectangle become the perimeter. Inside it, everythion is trusted. Outsid...

Threat Modeling Protocols

When Your Protocol Breaks: Why Failure Modes Come Before Rules

Start with rules and you will miss the edge case that sinks your protocol. That is not pessimism — it is the lesson from a dozen post-mortems I have e...

Threat Modeling Protocols

Choosing Threat Model Depth Without the Analysis Paralysis Trap

Threat modeled is one of those practices everyone agrees is key—until the crew sits down to more actual do it. Then comes the openion question: how de...

Threat Modeling Protocols

When Your Protocol's Implicit Trust Becomes the Attack Surface

Implicit trust is the silent killer in protocol design. It hides in default assumptions—like that a TLS handshake always comes from a legitimate peer,...