We Teach Security Backwards: I Put AI Red-Teaming on Day 2 and Never Got There
I designed a two-day workshop with AI red-teaming as a full module, not a closing talk. We finished three of eight sessions. The classics ate both days.
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STRIDE, PASTA, OCTAVE, attack trees, kill chains, MAESTRO, the five-zone method. The trade-offs decide which one fits your system. Threat modeling returns more security per hour invested than any other practice; the only frameworks worth learning are the ones that match the architecture you're defending.
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I designed a two-day workshop with AI red-teaming as a full module, not a closing talk. We finished three of eight sessions. The classics ate both days.
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Read articleA foundational guide to threat modeling: what it is, when to do it, who should be in the room, and the seven questions every model must answer.
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