# Magical Approaches to Threat Modeling

DevFeed: [Magical Approaches to Threat Modeling](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/magical-approaches-to-threat-modeling-36873.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/magical-approaches-to-threat-modeling/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techniques.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how to identify meaningful threats in threat modeling. It argues that short threat lists come from magical thinking, highly skilled experts, or generating many threats and pruning them, and recommends structured techniques such as STRIDE per element to reduce missed threats while balancing time, coverage, skill, and consistency.

## Source excerpt

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