# Contextualisation of Data Flow Diagrams for Security Analysis

DevFeed: [Contextualisation of Data Flow Diagrams for Security Analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/contextualisation-of-data-flow-diagrams-36735.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/contextualisation-of-data-flow-diagrams/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2020-06-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/requirements.md>), [Usability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usability.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/requirements.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces a paper on reasoning about tainted data flows in design-level data flow diagrams by placing them in context with complementary usability and requirements models. A pilot study identified tainted data flows without augmenting the diagrams or complementary models.

## Source excerpt

Contextualisation of Data Flow Diagrams for security analysis is a new paper to which I contributed.