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Software Architect's Handbook
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Software Architect's Handbook

by Joseph Ingeno
August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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DREAD risk assessment model

DREAD is a risk assessment model that can be used to prioritize security threats. Like the STRIDE model, it was created by Microsoft. DREAD is an acronym that represents the following risk factors:

  • Damage potential
  • Reproducibility
  • Exploitability
  • Affected users
  • Discoverability

Each risk factor for a given threat can be given a score (for example, 1 to 10). The sum of all the factors divided by the number of factors represents the overall level of risk for the threat. A higher score signifies a higher level of risk and would typically be given a higher priority when determining which threats should be focused on first.

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ISBN: 9781788624060