At BlockApex, we offer specialized threat modeling to secure your decentralized applications (dApps). Our expert team identifies vulnerabilities early in development, using methodologies like STRIDE, PASTA, the ABC Framework, and the Lightweight Threat Model to provide a thorough analysis tailored to your specific project needs.
DeFi platforms manage significant financial transactions and assets, making them prime targets for attacks. Threat modeling helps identify potential vulnerabilities in your system, safeguarding your platform from breaches and ensuring the security of user funds.
NFT Marketplaces
NFT marketplaces handle unique digital assets and often involve complex interactions between users and smart contracts. Our threat modeling services help you understand and secure your system’s attack surface, protecting both creators and collectors from potential exploits.
Blockchain Protocols
Innovative blockchain protocols often involve intricate architectures and integrations. Threat modeling is essential for identifying security risks at every level, ensuring your protocol is resilient and reliable from the ground up.
Projects with Complex Architectures
If your project involves multiple integrations or sophisticated technical setups, threat modeling becomes even more critical. We help you ensure end-to-end security by thoroughly analyzing and addressing potential vulnerabilities across your entire system.
Our Threat Modeling
Methodologies
STRIDE
A structured approach that helps identify and classify potential threats based on six categories: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege.
PASTA
(Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis): A seven-step risk-centric methodology focusing on identifying vulnerabilities and assessing their impact from an attacker’s perspective.
ABC Framework
A simplified approach that focuses on Assets, Business processes, and Controls, providing a balanced view of potential threats and mitigations.
Lightweight Threat Model
This model quickly identifies in-scope design assets, attacker profiles, attack methods, and attack surfaces. It’s ideal for projects involving hardware and software integrations, producing security requirements and guidelines that encompass hardware, software, and the design process.
Provide Actionable Insights
Our methodology ensures that every aspect of your project’s security is analyzed, providing you with actionable insights and recommendations to fortify your Web3 application.
Threat modeling in Web3 involves identifying and assessing potential security risks in decentralized applications and protocols, focusing on unique threats like smart contract vulnerabilities, consensus attacks, and more.
Threat modeling should be conducted at the start of a project and revisited whenever significant changes occur to the application’s architecture, codebase, or threat landscape.
Yes, integrating threat modeling into the development lifecycle (often called secure development lifecycle or SDL) helps catch potential issues early, reducing the risk of costly security incidents post-launch.
Our use of advanced methodologies like STRIDE, PASTA, the ABC Framework, and our Lightweight Threat Model, combined with our deep expertise in Web3 security, ensures that we provide a comprehensive and tailored threat modeling service for your project.
Threat modeling helps identify potential security risks that could lead to regulatory breaches, allowing you to implement necessary controls to comply with relevant standards and regulations.
Threat modeling benefits projects handling sensitive information, financial transactions, or involving complex integrations, such as DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces, and new blockchain protocols.
While threat modeling significantly reduces the risk of security incidents by identifying and mitigating potential threats, it’s one part of a broader security strategy that should include regular audits, testing, and updates.
