Risk Assessment and Threat Modeling Before you write a single
line of code, take the time to design your software with
security in mind. Doing this correctly is genuinely hard; if
your security analysis process seems easy, you’re probably
missing something fairly fundamental and losing most of the
benefits of proper secure code design. Risk assessment and
threat modeling happens in three steps: Assess risk. Determine
how much you have to lose. Determine potential threats. Figure
out the various things your code does that could be attacked
(including things that frameworks and libraries do on your
behalf). Mitigate threats. Ensure that the parts of your code
that could be attacked are well protected. To assess the risk
that your code would pose if compromised, you should first
assume that your program will be attacked. Assume Your Software
Will Be Attacked The amount of time and effort that an attacker
will spend attacking your program depends on several factors,
including: The value of the data your program h