CRISC IT Risk Identification Practice Question
During a risk assessment, the risk practitioner is identifying threats to an application. Which threat modeling technique is specifically designed to analyze application threats using categories such as Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap is confusing STRIDE with other threat modeling methodologies like PASTA or TRIKE; candidates must memorize the STRIDE acronym and its categories.
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STRIDE
STRIDE is a threat modeling methodology developed by Microsoft that categorizes threats into Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege. It is specifically designed to analyze application threats using these categories, making it the correct answer.
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STRIDE
Why this is correct
STRIDE is Microsoft's threat modelling framework whose six mnemonic categories — Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege — map directly onto the stem's listed threat types, making it the technique explicitly designed for categorising application threats.
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VAST
Why it's wrong here
VAST is a scaled agile framework for visualising workflows and dependencies across teams, not a threat-modelling method, and defines no STRIDE categories. It would be the right choice when coordinating delivery across many agile teams.
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TRIKE
Why it's wrong here
TRIKE models risk from the asset's perspective, computing acceptable risk levels per asset rather than classifying threats into the six STRIDE categories named in the stem. It is tempting because TRIKE genuinely supports threat modelling and produces threat trees, making it the right pick when the requirement is asset-driven risk acceptability rather than category-based threat enumeration.
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PASTA
Why it's wrong here
PASTA is a seven-stage, attacker-centric, risk-and-business-impact process; it does not organise threats into Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege. PASTA fits aligning threat analysis with business objectives and attack simulation.
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