Course Description
Threat modeling is an essential skill for any type of security professional. This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of threat modeling, covering not only the theory but immediately applicable tools and techniques including a focus on Attack Trees. Using attack trees to model threats is one of the most widely applied techniques used in threat modeling in the security development life cycle and in the overall software and systems design process. Attack trees are diagrams that depict attacks on a system in tree form. In this course students learn about threat modeling using a variety of modeling approaches including attack trees and attack libraries.
Introduction to Threat Modeling and Attack Trees Dec 2025Introduction to Threat Modeling and Attack Trees
Learn the fundamentals concepts of threat modeling and its purpose
Understand Attack Trees and Attack Libraries
Gain a practical understanding of threat modeling and the tools to automate it
Apply threat modeling to improve security when managing complex systems
Understand and implement the modern ways of scaling threat modeling
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