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Game Play

In this chapter, I’m going to walk you through what you need to play Elevation of Privilege (EoP) to threat model your software design. We are going to talk about how the participants should be selected to get the best results from threat modeling and why participants should have different roles in the project. Last but not least, we will see how to play the game and understand what’s the end goal of playing the game – finding out as many threats as possible. However, before we get started with all these, I would like to begin with a couple of words on what threat modeling is, as well as when you should threat model and why.

Threat modeling is a process to identify threats to and design flaws in the system you are designing. A

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