Intro to Pasta

This chapter examines the step‐by‐step coverage of the process for attack simulation and threat analysis (PASTA) methodology. Communication around each PASTA stage needs to be met with clear timeliness and aligned to milestones for each stage of the PASTA threat modeling methodology. The ingredients for making great PASTA boil down to people, information sources, and artifacts to be created. The chapter further discusses each phase of the PASTA methodology for threat modeling. It presents a hypothetical walk‐through of the various PASTA application threat modeling methodology stages in order to clearly define the steps and actions that should be taken, while simultaneously considering possible challenges and variants that a threat modeler or team may witness in their own respective environments. The chapter also provides detailed specifics on what deliverables need to be produced as artifacts or inputs to other phases across the PASTA methodology.