Threat Model-as-Code: Integrating Security into the Software Development Lifecycle

Explore an innovative approach to threat modeling in this conference talk from AppSecUSA 2018. Learn about "Automaton," an open-source framework that transforms threat modeling into code, integrating it seamlessly into the Software Development Lifecycle. Discover how this method produces actionable outputs, allowing product teams to capture user stories, abuser stories, threat models, and security test cases in YAML files. Understand the benefits of this approach, including iterative and updated threat models, actionable results, and the convergence of threat modeling with security testing. Gain insights into how this framework can trigger specific security test cases using tools like OWASP ZAP, BurpSuite, and Nmap, making threat modeling a first-class citizen in product engineering.