Teams are balancing features, deadlines, customer demands, operational pressures, and figuring out how to use AI effectively.
Security rarely participates in that engineering work. More often, it is asked for a review or signoff after important product and engineering decisions have already been made. By that point, teams are often debating exceptions, revisiting designs, delaying releases, or trying to reconcile security requirements with decisions that have already been made. The earlier security becomes part of the conversation, the easier those decisions become.
For three decades, Adam Shostack and the experts he works with have helped organizations bring security into product and engineering decisions earlier through threat modeling, secure design, training, and practical approaches to adoption.
Does this sound familiar?
You know security matters. The challenge is making security work when delivery pressure, competing priorities, and limited resources are part of everyday work.
Perhaps you’re trying to:
- Introduce threat modeling into development teams.
- Implement Secure By Design practices.
- Understand how AI changes your risk landscape.
- Move security further left without creating additional friction.
- Reduce friction between security and delivery teams.
- Respond to requests for exceptions when existing processes don’t seem to fit new ways of working.
- Build a sustainable approach that does not depend on a handful of security experts.
- Turn security knowledge into security adoption.
These challenges are common.
The question is not if security matters. It’s how to integrate security into the way products are designed, built, and delivered so organizations can continue delivering value to customers.
That requires more than awareness. It requires security practices that teams can adopt, sustain, and use as part of everyday decision-making.
What we’ve learned
Organizations rarely struggle because they lack smart people. More often, they struggle because security practices remain disconnected from the decisions that shape products.
Security teams rarely scale at the same rate as engineering organizations. As a result, security often arrives late, teams work from different assumptions, and important conversations happen under deadline pressure instead of during design.
Training alone is not enough.
Policies alone are not enough.
Frameworks alone are not enough.
Security is not just a technology problem. It is also a people problem, a process problem, and a decision-making problem. AI makes this harder. It accelerates development, increases variability, and changes how products are designed, built, and operated.
But AI does not remove the need for judgment or accountability. It will not solve security problems for you. Security improves when teams develop a shared way of understanding systems, discussing risks, evaluating trade-offs, and making decisions together.
This is where threat modeling and secure design can help.
New technology. Familiar questions.
AI is creating new opportunities, new risks, and new security questions. The same principles that help organizations understand traditional systems can help them understand AI-enabled systems.
Our AI-focused training and expertise help organizations apply threat modeling and secure design thinking in a rapidly changing environment.
Featured AI Training includes
Both courses are designed to help organizations apply threat modeling and secure design practices to AI-enabled systems.
From understanding to adoption
Every organization starts from a different place. Yet the journey often follows a similar pattern.
Moving from understanding to adoption takes work. New practices must fit alongside existing priorities, delivery pressures, and ways of working.
Understand
Develop a common language for discussing systems, threats, assumptions, and risk.
Learn
Build practical skills through training and hands-on exercises.
Practice
Apply threat modeling and secure design techniques to real systems and projects.
Operationalize
Turn threat modeling and secure design practices into part of how teams actually work. Integrate security practices into everyday product, engineering, and decision-making processes.
Scale
Build sustainable organizational capability that becomes part of how the organization designs, builds and delivers software.
How We Help
Organizations engage us at different stages of their journey. Whether the goal is building understanding, developing capability, improving adoption, or addressing specific challenges, we provide support that fits the situation.
Training
Practical courses for engineers, architects, security practitioners, leaders, and teams looking to strengthen threat modeling and secure design capabilities.
Secure Design Accelerator
Support for organizations that need help turning knowledge into practice, adoption and operationalizing security practices.
Consulting
Guidance and expertise for organizations facing specific security, design, adoption, or transformation challenges.
Practical experience tied to real-world challenges
Organizations choose to work with us because they need more than theory. They need practical, proven ways to improve security decisions, strengthen design practices, and help teams adopt new ways of working.
Adam Shostack
Author of Threat Modeling and Threats, creator of Elevation of Privilege, and a recognized leader in secure design and threat modeling.
Team Expertise
Our Associates bring expertise across:
- AI Security
- Product Security
- Security Architecture
- Secure By Design
- Organizational Adoption
- Security Leadership
Together, we help organizations move from understanding security to making security work.
Ready to start?
Whether you’re introducing threat modeling, operationalizing Secure By Design, addressing AI-related challenges, or looking to improve security adoption, we’d be happy to discuss your situation and explore what might help.