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Learn to create and apply a defensive framework used by security professionals in many industries. This video will explain how it's really just an extension of behaviors you already do.
New Terms:
- Threat Model -- A conceptual framework to identify assets and risks, possible mitigations, and optimizations.
- Actors -- The people, agencies, or devices involved in the threat model.
- Risks -- The vulnerabilities related to exposure or loss of assets.
- Assets -- The people, resources, or possessions you wish to protect.
- Mitigations -- The possible strategies for prevention or minimization of risk
- Breach -- An event where assets were lost or exposed, through failure of mitigations or other protections.
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we can make some informed decisions
about our online activity.
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One way to establish some secure practices
is to create what's called a threat model.
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This is a defensive framework used by
security professionals in many industries.
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But don't let that intimidate you.
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It's really just thinking
through behaviors and
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attitudes that you already
do on a daily basis.
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First, let's establish
some threat model basics.
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Creating a thought model is asking
yourself a set of questions.
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Who would be most likely to target me?
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A repressive government, organized crime,
corporations, my ex, my coworkers.
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