# Threat Model Thursday: Legible Architecture

DevFeed: [Threat Model Thursday: Legible Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/threat-model-thursday-legible-architecture-37080.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/tmt-legible-architecture/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2018-08-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>), [Data visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-visualization.md>)

Tags: [abstraction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/abstraction.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [evolution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evolution.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that system models should be legible: organized and comprehensible enough to help people find threats. It presents legibility as a tool that supports design, evolution, interaction, and architectural consistency, while noting that cloud architectures can temporarily simplify accumulated complexity.

## Source excerpt

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