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Threat Modelling Lifecycle

THREAT MODELLING  |  CURRENT PRACTICE  |  MAPPED TO NCSC, NIST AND OWASP
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v0.4  |  November 2026
Scope · Landscape · Model · Boundaries · Threats · Prioritise · Mitigate · Validate · Record · Continuous
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The threat modelling lifecycle — ten stages
CURRENT CATALOGUES AND GUIDANCE NCSC threat modelling v2.0 · MITRE ATT&CK v20.1 · MITRE ATLAS 2026.10 · OWASP LLM Top 10 2026 · OWASP Agentic AI · NIST AI RMF 1.0 · SLSA v1.2 For people working in cyber security, resilience and assurance. A community teaching resource, not a standard and not official guidance.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS  |  THE HANDRAIL FOR THE WHOLE PASS
What are we working on? What can go wrong? What will we do about it? Did we do a good enough job?
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The lifecycle, end to end
TEN STAGES

FEEDBACK LOOP — when the design, the threats or your assumptions change, stage 10 returns you to stage 1 and the model is opened again

WHEN TO REOPEN Change Data flows, trust boundaries, identities, a model or agent, or a dependency alter Signal A relevant incident or advisory appears Cadence On the planned review cycle you have agreed Learn Monitoring, incidents and lessons feed back into stages 2 and 5 Retire Close the model when the service itself is retired