How it works

Risk-based threat modelling, run as a structured workshop with your engineering and product teams. Four stages. A prioritised roadmap at the end.

The four stages

Each engagement follows the same four-stage process. The stages are structured, but the content is specific to your system, your team, and your business.

Business context

We start with what matters to your business, not your technology.

Before touching architecture diagrams, we establish what the system does, what happens if it fails, who the realistic threat actors are, and what your risk appetite looks like. This framing drives everything that follows. Without it, threat modelling produces a generic list of concerns rather than findings your business can act on.

Architecture mapping

We map how the system actually works, not how it was documented.

Your engineers walk us through the real system — trust boundaries, data flows, third-party dependencies, authentication points, and the places where complexity hides. This stage routinely surfaces details the security team did not know and assumptions the engineering team had not questioned. That shared picture is the foundation everything else is built on.

Threat assessment

We work through what could go wrong using your system as the guide.

Using the STRIDE framework and the shared architecture model, we systematically identify realistic threats. We are not looking for every theoretical vulnerability — we are identifying the attacks that are plausible given your threat actors, your technology, and your business context. Each threat is assessed for likelihood and impact before we move on.

Controls prioritisation

We connect findings to business impact and build a roadmap you can present to leadership.

The output is not a list sorted by CVSS score. It is a prioritised set of controls mapped to business risk, with clear rationale for each recommendation. Your security team gets something they can defend. Your engineering team gets something they can build. Leadership gets a clear picture of where investment is needed and why.

What makes it different

Threat modelling has a reputation for producing shelf reports. These are the principles that make ours produce action instead.

Risk-based, not control-based

We start with threat actors and business impact. Controls come last, not first. This means effort goes where it is most needed rather than where a framework says it should go.

Workshop-led

The people who built the system understand it best. Our process puts engineers in the room, which produces a more accurate model and builds security knowledge that stays with the team long after we leave.

Specific to your system

Generic threat models produce generic findings. Our output reflects your actual architecture, your actual threat actors, and your actual business context — which is why teams act on it.

Repeatable

We build a process your team can run again when the system changes. Security is not a one-time event. The model we produce becomes a living document, not a filed report.

Ready to start?

Book a call with our team to talk through how the process would work for your system.