{"id":1945,"date":"2015-04-02T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2015-08-10T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:50:55","slug":"introducing-project-seasponge-quick-and-easy-threat-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2015\/04\/02\/introducing-project-seasponge-quick-and-easy-threat-modeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Project Seasponge: Quick and Easy Threat Modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threat modeling is a crucial but often neglected part of developing, implementing and operating any system. If you have no mental model of a system or its strengths and weaknesses it is extremely difficult to secure it correctly.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to help make threat modeling easier a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Security\/Mentorships\/MWoS\/2014\/online_threat_modeling_tool\">Mozilla Winter of Security (MWOS) team<\/a> has developed Seasponge, a browser-based graphical threat modeling tool. Written specifically for the browser environment, the tool requires no special addons or plugins and allows one to quickly and easily diagram a system and its data flows and begin the important work of focusing on threats.<\/p>\n<p>A demo is worth a thousand meetings and the team of Joel Kuntz, Sarah MacDonald, Glavin Wiechert, Mathew Kallada and professor Dr. Pawan Lingras from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ca\/\">Saint Mary\u2019s University<\/a> in Halifax, Nova Scotia has been generous enough to put together a video explaining the project along with a quick demo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/air.mozilla.org\/mozilla-winter-of-security-seasponge-a-tool-for-easy-threat-modeling\/video\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The code for the project <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/seasponge\">is available on github<\/a>. A working client is <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.github.io\/seasponge\/#\/\">continually posted here<\/a> for you to try out. Have a look at it and if you spot a bug, or see a feature you\u2019d like please contribute by filing a github issue or even better, by sending a pull request!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat modeling is a crucial but often neglected part of developing, implementing and operating any system. 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