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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Threat model?

Definition 29.1 Research, Data and Risk Platforms · Chapter 29 — Security

A threat model lists what a system must protect (its assets), from whom (the adversaries and their means), through which paths (the attack surface), and which controls address each path, so that security effort goes where the losses would be.

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