Enhancing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Workload Security Through Threat Modeling

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an ever-increasing number of security threats and risks. As a result, ensuring the security of software and hardware has become a critical concern for businesses across many industries. By systematically analyzing and prioritizing threats using threat modeling, organizations can develop robust mitigation strategies and create secure solutions that can withstand attacks and protect critical data and assets.

With the widespread adoption of cloud computing and the emphasis on rapid and secure application development, organizations must plan, build, and scale their cloud workloads with heightened security measures. Cloud platforms and providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are actively working to bridge security gaps and promote a collaborative application security (AppSec) environment.

In this white paper, we discuss:

• The importance of threat modeling and how it informs other areas of business

• The critical need for threat modeling in cloud environments

• How to create a threat model

• Making a program from a process

• Scaling your threat modeling with a streamlined, self-sustaining program run on AWS