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The only security book to be chosen as a Dr. Dobbs Jolt Award Finalist since Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography! Adam Shostack is responsible for security development lifecycle threat modeling at Microsoft and is one of a handful of threat modeling experts in the world. Now, he…


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1 author picked Threat Modeling as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book because it has the power to pull even technical people out of their “security technology will save the world” bubble. I regularly encounter engineers randomly throwing countermeasures like strong encryption, secure boot, and TPMs at devices without knowing why.

This book provided me with a set of methods and practical hints for identifying and assessing relevant security threats—a much better starting point than penetration testing! 

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