tuxwise 🇺🇦<p>(14/N) Having familiarized ourselves with categories of adversaries, their main goals and their respective, overall "modus operandi", let's look at the types of threats posed by them.</p><p>Again, it pays to focus on <em>types</em> of threats: We don't want to become mainly alert-triggered, but proactive. There are several frameworks we can borrow ideas from, most notably the LINDDUN framework that is geared toward threats to privacy, and can be extended a bit to cover more ground.</p><p>First, our list of threat types:</p><ul><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Linking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linking</span></a> (spotting connections and relationships)</li><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Identifying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Identifying</span></a> (mapping to identities)</li><li>Undesirable <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/NonRepudiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonRepudiation</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/repudiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repudiation</span></a></li><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Detecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Detecting</span></a> (absence or presence of indicators)</li><li>Data <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/disclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disclosure</span></a> (to the unauthorized)</li><li>Manufacturing cooperation (disguised or imposed bad consequences)</li><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Obstructing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obstructing</span></a> (access, information, resources)</li><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/NonCompliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonCompliance</span></a></li><li><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Interfering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interfering</span></a> (with information, resources, processes, interactions)</li></ul><p>Our definitions of these, for our context:</p><p><strong>Linking</strong></p><p>An adversary can figure out connections and relationships between formerly isolated items of interest.</p><p><strong>Identifiying</strong></p><p>An adversary can link items of interest directly to a natural person.</p><p>(to be continued)</p><p>Start of this thread:<br><a href="https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228</span><span class="invisible">291818865</span></a></p><p>LINDDUN:<br><a href="https://linddun.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linddun.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/ThreatModeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreatModeling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/4D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4D</span></a></p>