A hybrid threat model for system-centric and attack-centric for effective security design in SDLC

Abstract

Threat modeling is an essential activity in the security development lifecycle. To provide security at the design phase of software development, Microsoft introduced threat modeling stride to identify the vulnerabilities and attacks of application. An efficient solution is necessary to deal with these issues in the software development life cycle. In this context, the paper focused on the analysis of threats and attack tree techniques that are traditionally available and frequently used. Automated Threat modeling enables to simulate attacks and visualized the existing vulnerabilities and misconfiguration. A hybrid model is proposed based on system-centric and attacker-centric to identify the threats in the software application during the software design phase. This model is built by STRIDE by defining security architecture and then analyzed the risks regarding its security characteristics and applied to its real application system. Our model is applied in a case study of the health center management system and shows a better result is identifying the threats and severity in the design phase. And also attack tree defines the stages of threats to understand the severity.