Threat Modeling
A strategic necessity for high-stakes European industries - finance, critical infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Do you need threat modeling?
A quick self-check. If several of these sound like you, it is worth a short conversation.
You likely need this if
- You are designing or significantly changing a system, product or architecture
- You want to find design-level risk before it is built and expensive to fix
- You have complex trust boundaries, integrations or third-party components
- You want to focus later testing where it matters most
Not sure where you land? A short scoping call will tell you plainly, including if you do not need this yet.
Book a scoping callA strategic necessity, by design
Threat modeling operates upstream in the software development lifecycle, systematically identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing security threats before systems reach production. For high-stakes EU industries, this prevents the architectural vulnerabilities that would otherwise lead to costly breaches.
It maps data flows and system relationships before code is written - focusing on systemic architectural risk, not the isolated flaws found only after deployment.
Surface architectural risks at the design phase, before they are built into production.
Rank threats with structured methods so effort goes where business impact is highest.
Turn findings into concrete controls and architecture changes, validated against each threat.
Produce documented threat models for GDPR Art. 25 DPIAs and NIS2/DORA demonstrations.
Specific attack vectors mitigated
Fixing these at design time is far cheaper - and far more effective - than discovering them in production.
Identify the lateral-movement and trust paths ransomware would use across your architecture.
Catch SQL injection design issues and man-in-the-middle risks in API communications before code is written.
Map third-party and dependency trust relationships that introduce single points of failure.
Model training-data poisoning, adversarial examples, and prompt injection against AI components.
Practical threat modeling
Scope & Decompose
Map the system, data flows, trust boundaries, and assets across the architecture.
Identify & Assess Threats
Apply structured methods such as STRIDE and attack trees to enumerate and rate threats by risk.
Mitigate & Validate
Design controls and architecture changes, then validate they address each identified threat.
Document & Integrate
Produce audit-ready threat models and integrate analysis into the SDLC and CI/CD.
Every threat model ships with structured threat enumeration, impact assessments, and implemented mitigations - the evidence GDPR Art. 25 DPIAs and NIS2 demonstrations require.
Learn what's best for your company
Strategic recommendations
Where to start depends on your maturity, budget, and regulatory pressure.
Quick wins
Lightweight, entry-level threat models scoped to your highest-risk systems - fast value for constrained teams. Subsidized programs like EU CYSSME and SECURE grants can help fund them.
Compliance integration
Embed threat modeling into your SDLC and audit program to satisfy GDPR Article 25, NIS2, and DORA, with documentation auditors accept.
Threat modeling applications
Fintech & Banking
The Problem: Payment and banking platforms face injection, API, and business-logic risks that are far cheaper to fix at design time than after a breach.
The Outcome: We model transaction flows, trust boundaries, and third-party dependencies to harden architecture and evidence DORA resilience.
Healthcare & MedTech
The Problem: Interoperable health systems and connected devices handle life-critical data across many integrations.
The Outcome: We map data flows and device trust boundaries to protect patient data and support GDPR and medical-device security obligations.
Critical Infrastructure
The Problem: OT-adjacent and essential-service systems can be compromised through design-level trust and access flaws.
The Outcome: We model segmentation, privileged paths, and supplier connections so weaknesses are fixed before they reach operations.
Reporting structure and metrics
Management Report
An executive overview of architectural risk, compliance alignment, and a prioritized roadmap for board review.
Technical Report
Structured threat enumeration with data flows, trust boundaries, risk ratings, and concrete mitigations per threat.
Threats identified per system, percentage mitigated at design, residual risk by severity, and coverage across critical data flows.
Secure your regulatory standing
Build the documented, design-level evidence that GDPR, NIS2, and DORA expect - and stop architectural risk before it ships. Get a scoped threat modeling proposal in less than 48 hours.
Regulatory & compliance deep dive (EU focus)
Threat modeling is the design-level control that turns several EU obligations into demonstrable, documented evidence.
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NIS2 Directive: Proportional security measures, with threat modeling as documented evidence of design-level risk management.
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DORA (Art. 9): A structured methodology for ICT risk management and the resilience testing of critical dependencies.
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GDPR (Art. 25): Security and data protection by design - threat models feed Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
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EU Cyber Resilience Act: Secure-by-design obligations for products with digital elements, evidenced from the architecture up.