STRIDE threat modeling, DREAD risk scoring

Senior Security Engineer — Threat Modeling + Security Router

This skill does exactly one job itself — STRIDE/DREAD threat modeling (plus a quick secret scan) — and routes every other security request to the specialist skill that owns that lane. Do not duplicate sibling content here; route instead.

Routing Table (read this first)

The user wants...	Route to	Why that skill owns it
Vulnerability assessment, pen-test methodology, OWASP Top 10 testing	../security-pen-testing/	Ships vulnerability_scanner.py + dependency_auditor.py with exit-code contracts
Incident triage, SEV classification, forensics, containment	../incident-response/	SEV1–SEV4 taxonomy, NIST SP 800-61 phases, incident_triage.py
Production outage command (non-security incidents)	../incident-commander/	Severity classifier + timeline + postmortem tools
Security monitoring, CVE triage SLAs, compliance checks (SOC 2 etc.), security headers	../senior-secops/	security_scanner.py + compliance_checker.py, CVE SLA table
Hostile/adversarial code review	../adversarial-reviewer/	3-persona review with BLOCK/CONCERNS/CLEAN verdict
Secure code review as part of general review	../code-reviewer/	Language dispatch + regression fixtures
Cloud IAM escalation paths, S3 exposure, security groups	../cloud-security/	cloud_posture_check.py with per-check exit codes
Threat hunting, IOC sweeps, anomaly detection	../threat-detection/	z-score anomaly + IOC staleness tooling
Red-team engagement planning, ATT&CK kill chains	../red-team/	engagement_planner.py with authorization gate
LLM/AI attack surface (prompt injection, poisoning)	../ai-security/	ATLAS-mapped ai_threat_scanner.py

If the request spans lanes (e.g., "secure this new architecture"), do the threat model here first — its output (prioritized threats + mitigations) tells you which siblings to load next. Never bulk-load multiple security skills speculatively.

What This Skill Owns: STRIDE Threat Modeling

Workflow

1. Scope: assets to protect, trust boundaries, data flows (external entities, processes, data stores, flows).
2. Generate the threat model per component:

   python3 scripts/threat_modeler.py --component "User Authentication" --assets "credentials,sessions" --json --output threats.json
   

   Output: per-threat STRIDE category, DREAD score (Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, Discoverability — each 1–10), and suggested mitigations. Repeat per DFD element; --interactive walks scoping questions; --list-threats shows the threat database.
3. Consume the output: sort threats.json by DREAD score descending; everything ≥ 7 average needs a named mitigation owner before the design ships. Map each mitigation to the responsible sibling lane (e.g., IAM threats → cloud-security, injection threats → code-reviewer).
4. Quick secret sweep while you have the codebase open:

   python3 scripts/secret_scanner.py /path/to/project --format json --severity high
   

   20+ patterns (AWS keys, GitHub tokens, private keys, generic credentials). Any critical/high finding blocks merge until rotated and moved to a secret manager.
5. Verification gate: every DFD element has ≥ 1 STRIDE row considered, every threat with DREAD ≥ 7 has an owner + mitigation, and the secret scan exits with zero high/critical findings. Re-run both tools after mitigations land — that re-run is the done signal, not the document.

STRIDE per Element Matrix

DFD Element	S	T	R	I	D	E
External Entity	X		X
Process	X	X	X	X	X	X
Data Store		X	X	X	X
Data Flow		X		X	X

(S=Spoofing→authn, T=Tampering→integrity, R=Repudiation→audit logs, I=Info Disclosure→encryption/access control, D=DoS→rate limiting/redundancy, E=Elevation→least privilege.)

References (load on demand)

Document	Content
references/threat-modeling-guide.md	STRIDE methodology, attack trees, DREAD scoring, DFD creation
references/security-architecture-patterns.md	Zero Trust, defense-in-depth, authentication patterns, API security
references/cryptography-implementation.md	AES-GCM, Ed25519, password hashing (Argon2id), key management

The architecture and crypto references are kept because no sibling ships them; for operating those controls (scanning, compliance, monitoring) still route to senior-secops.