Should you Build a Threat Modeling Tool?
Introduction
When organizations consider their threat modeling strategy, they sometimes face a critical decision: build an internal solution, or invest in an established threat modeling tool like IriusRisk. While the appeal of full control in a self-built tool is understandable, we have seen real-world feedback from companies that highlighted several key challenges with the self-build approach:
Consistency and Quality Control
A large SaaS enterprise, faced significant challenges with their internal approach. Their decentralized process resulted in inconsistent workshops, varying levels of expertise, and frustrated users. Without a unified standard, the quality of threat modeling varied widely, causing misalignment between architecture and AppSec teams. This fragmentation not only wasted time but also diluted the effectiveness of their efforts.
With IriusRisk, you can be confident in a repeatable, and scalable threat modeling tool, with reliable and consistent results. Even if the person or team creating the threat model differs, the underlying process and intelligent rules engine will give robust and standardized outcomes.
Development and Rollout
A British Retailer spent three years building an internal tool, only to realize it would take another six months just to identify its shortcomings. Internal development is resource-intensive and delays the ability to address security gaps.
With us, organizations gain access to a fully functional, professional-grade solution from day one. With security standards provided out-of-the-box, to align against necessary security practices and guidelines.
Alignment Across Processes and Teams
Misalignment between teams is a common pain point in self-built solutions. The large SaaS organization experienced shadow processes and redundant tools across lines of business, leading to massive overhead and frustration.
Established tools like IriusRisk provide a central platform, ensuring consistent standards and alignment across the enterprise. Self-built tools are rarely up to the challenge of scalability. Organizations requiring enterprise-wide tooling which is scalable from 50 threat models up to 50,000 threat models, need an automated enterprise solution such as ours.
Evolving Industry Needs
Self-built tools often struggle to keep up with evolving user needs and industry demands. An American HR and Finance Company highlighted to us the difficulty they had of balancing bespoke features with scalability.
IriusRisk’s roadmap is shaped by industry professionals and a global user base, ensuring continuous innovation and relevance. In addition, we have large world-class product management, security research and engineering teams, all focused on threat modeling excellence and development.
Why Choose IriusRisk?
Built-In Expertise and Automation
IriusRisk incorporates decades of expertise in threat modeling, offering automation and scalability that internal tools rarely achieve. We are adding 100 ‘human years’ worth of engineering effort into the tool every year. We take away the complexity and need of building a proprietary tool or system.
A Secure Solution
Investing in IriusRisk means adopting a solution specifically designed by threat modeling experts, tested across many industries, and built for scalability. The tool simplifies the secure design process, reduces overhead, and ensures alignment across teams. Unlike internal tools, IriusRisk evolves with industry trends, saving organizations time, resources, and the frustration of ‘reinventing the wheel’.
Scalable and Consistent Results
While internal solutions may offer complete control, they often come at the expense of consistency, efficiency, and quality. IriusRisk provides a proven foundation that organizations can rely on, allowing teams to focus on what truly matters: building secure systems and reducing risk, at scale. We provide the industry relevant and specific threats and countermeasures, removing any need for manual effort to record security requirements.
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