From the course: Practical Secure by Design: Threat Modeling to Build Resilient Products

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Mitigating security risks through threat modeling

Mitigating security risks through threat modeling

- [Instructor] In our previous video, I have come up with six different threats against a vending machine. I hope you have come up with more than six different threats. In this video, let's try to understand the risk of these threats a little bit more and come up with security recommendations. In our first threat, we talked about potentially breaking the glass, or breaking the lock, or breaking something on the vending machine. The risk of that is someone will be able to steal everything that's in a vending machine. If you want to restrict someone from stealing everything by breaking the glass, you want to make sure that you have strong glass, strong locks, and make sure the vending machine is in a location where users or attackers are not able to bring tools to break into the machine. So our recommendation in this scenario is the machine needs to be strongly built with a strong glass, and we need to…

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