TL;DR

For those who’ve done this before and just need the answers, we provide the following:

  • We provide a one-off threat model for a scope of any size or complexity
  • We turn your disparate efforts into a singular threat modeling practice that costs less than the sum of its current parts
  • We bring ILT, hard-won expertise, ongoing support, and—if you desire—LLM-based technology to your TM practice
  • We scale your TM practice, aligning stakeholders and federating it to Champions or Developers 

How it works:

  • Firm fixed price threat modeling engagement; small, medium, and large timelines are typically fpur, fix, and ten weeks
  • Firm fixed price or time and materials for capability building; usually takes three to six months
  • Retainer agreement for ongoing mentoring, coaching, and skill building; most effective when done for twelve months

For those who are learning more about these areas, please consider the descriptions below.

Model Real Threats, Not Hypothetical Checklists

We help leadership teams put threat modeling on the critical path of delivery—so secure design happens when it matters most. Our engagements strengthen your current approach, avoid method dogma, and align modeling with engineering reality. The outcome: faster decisions, clearer and more durable tradeoffs, and mitigations that actually ship.

Method lineage without dogma VAST is our native language—authored by our founder and used to scale modeling across complex organizations. Decades ago, VAST’s risk-centric principles influenced industry standard approaches; PASTA draws on those foundations. We also trained Microsoft’s experts; that work informed how STRIDE is practiced at scale. Today we meet you where you are: if your teams use STRIDE, PASTA, LINDDUN, an internal hybrid, or lightweight design reviews, we augment the strengths you already have and close the gaps that slow delivery or leave risk on the table. This is about strengthening your approach, not converting you to a new religion.

Strategy via Culture and Collaboration

Threat modeling at scale isn’t a tool or an AI chat; it's not a point in time activity either; t’s a capability, not  workshop or one-off artifact. We build the ability to anticipate adversary behavior, prioritize key risks to the business, then discover technical design risks early, and land mitigations as code, policy, or platform guardrails. Yet, threat modeling must also fit within the software lifecycle and support release gates without delay. That’s where Aedify operates—at the intersection of engineering and assurance—Our clients consistently remark that our threat modeling has "saved them weeks" of engineering time.  

 

We start by mapping how design and threat considerations currently flow through your build, deploy, and operate cycles. From there, we tune modeling to your architecture standards, platform primitives, and change processes so it becomes a natural part of how engineers make decisions—not an external requirement. We align to control frameworks like NIST SSDF or BSIMM only insofar as they help you remove friction and reduce risk. We tune modeling to your architecture, platform controls, and change processes—so engineering adopts it because it accelerates delivery.

Threat Modeling Practice Accelerator

From zero-to-one, or from stalled to scalable. We build or unstick modeling programs so they produce repeatable, high-signal outcomes without slowing delivery.
  • How It Works
    • We assess where modeling fits today across planning, design, and release gates.
    • Map decision points, trust boundaries, and existing control surfaces (platform, IAM, data, release integrity).
    • Co-design an operating model engineers will actually use: roles, entry/exit criteria, decision records, evidence patterns.
    • Build reusable libraries and patterns: system archetypes, threats, mitigations, and reference designs aligned to your platforms.
    • Enable existing or new associate-level staff through coaching and co-facilitation: pair on real initiatives to build muscle while delivering value.
    • Integrate with delivery tooling: PR templates, change tickets, architecture review hooks, and workflow automation.
  • What You Get
    • Executive buy-in: Consensus among security and delivery executives and a documented practical operating model for threat modeling at your scale. 
    • Practice definition: Threat modeling handbook, templates for diagrams, abuse cases, decision records, and secure design reviews.
    • Exemplar threat models: Reference patterns and libraries tailored to your platforms and data flows
    • Governance guardrails and evidence that satisfy audit/GRC without burdening engineering.
    • Adoption and effectiveness measures focused on decision impact, not vanity metrics.

Strategic Threat Modeling & Secure Design

For business-critical platforms and planned technology shifts (e.g. Kubernetes in cloud, AI/ML workloads, low/no-code ecosystems, multi-tenant SaaS, and high-trust data platforms) we provide deep, hands-on modeling that de-risks design while accelerating delivery.
  • How It Works
    • Define scope and protection goals for the platform or initiative (data sensitivity, tenant boundaries, blast radius, SLOs).
    • Model architecture and trust boundaries (software, infrastructure, and flows, identity and workload isolation, supply chain inputs, orchestration, and control planes).
    • Enumerate adversary goals and misuse/abuse cases (insider paths, supply chain pivots, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, fraud).
    • Select mitigations and control patterns that ship (platform guardrails/policy-as-code, reference architectures, pipeline gates).
    • Land decisions in code and process (acceptance criteria, backlog stories, change review artifacts mapped to owners).
  • What You Get
    • Architecture views (current and target) with explicit trust boundaries and control points.
    • Prioritized threat/mitigation set with residual risk and tradeoffs.
    • Secure design patterns ready for implementation by platform and product teams.
    • Policy-as-code and delivery hooks to make mitigations stick.
    • A concise, executive-ready narrative connecting risk, design choices, and delivery impact.

M&A Threat Modeling Due Diligence

When evaluating acquisitions—or preparing to be evaluated—you need technical risk clarity that legal and finance can act on. We perform accelerated, evidence-backed threat modeling of the target organization, product, or service to surface material risks and the cost/time-to-remediate.
  • How It Works
    • Time-boxed discovery focused on data, identity, and delivery integrity (architecture reconnaissance, environment boundaries, third-party dependencies).
    • Rapid modeling of high-value assets and critical flows (authn/z pathways, key management, tenant isolation, CI/CD and supply chain risks).
    • Validate compensating controls and residual exposure (cloud guardrails, platform constraints, monitoring/response readiness).
    • Synthesize findings for decision-makers (deal blockers, escrowable remediations, interim controls, 100-day integration plan).
  • What You Get
    • Executive brief highlighting material risks, expected remediation effort, and timeline.
    • Technical risk ledger with threat/mitigation mapping and ownership.
    • Integration playbook for achieving acceptable risk posture pre- and post-close.
    • Evidence package suitable for board, audit, and external advisors.

Assessment and Executive Briefing

When organizations are directed—by internal mandate, IV&V partner, acquirer, or investor—to perform a deep assessment of their engineering risk posture, the biggest challenge isn’t collecting artifacts; it’s separating meaningful design and delivery risks from the noise. Working with your chosen third-party assessors or on its own, Aedify performs a top-down risk analysis of all collected assessment telemetry, then converts that analysis into an executive-ready brief that supports real risk decisions and remediation planning. This is not a stack of diagrams or an audit checklist—it’s a defensible narrative leaders can act on.

How It Works

  • Engage senior engineering, platform, product, and security leaders to understand how design decisions are made, governed, and traded off.

  • Examine real artifacts representing actual change and risk exposure: architecture records, change reviews, PRs, incident learnings, roadmap shifts, and exception processes.

  • Identify where design-risk identification provides leverage, where it routinely fails or stalls, and what this means for merger, acquisition, or investment objectives.

  • Produce a synthesized storyline that clarifies what risk truly exists, what is material to the intended transaction, and what remediation pathways are viable.

  • Present to your leadership team—or equip you to present—with clear options, ownership boundaries, and implications for cost, timeline, and platform maturity.

What You Get

  • Executive briefing deck: visual models, annotated findings, and materiality assessments aligned to transaction or IV&V objectives.

  • Written assessment suitable for archival, due-diligence processes, and cross-stakeholder distribution.

  • Optional leadership workshop to align on decisions, owners, timelines, and remediation sequencing—creating a risk-informed plan the acquiring, acquired, or investing party can actually manage.

How We Engage

Tools and Integration

We’ve worked with clients using a wide range of enterprise-grade and open-source modeling and collaboration tools. We integrate modeling artifacts and decisions into your existing delivery systems—source control, CI/CD, change management, and documentation—so the work is visible, reviewable, and enforceable where engineers already live.

Who We Serve

Primary audiences include CISOs and SVPs of Security Architecture. We also frequently engage CIOs and SVPs of Application Delivery when modeling needs to align tightly with modernization, platform strategy, and throughput.