# Threat Modeling and Architecture

DevFeed: [Threat Modeling and Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/threat-modeling-and-architecture-37024.md>)

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

Author: Adam

Published: 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [infosec](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infosec.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-architecture.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [infosec](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infosec.md>), [software-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-architecture.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how threat modeling and software architecture both use system models to reason about properties, tradeoffs, design choices, and potential problems. It presents a four-step threat-modeling process and discusses how the two practices can inform each other.

## Source excerpt

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