Business Solution · Risk, security & compliance oversight

Connect threats and controls to the systems they protect.

Model trust boundaries, STRIDE threats, vulnerabilities, controls, and regulatory standards against your applications. Scapius renders threat models and compliance matrices from the same architecture graph.

Why this is hard today

Security threat modeling and compliance reviews often exist in isolated silos, leaving architects and leaders unable to verify whether high-risk assets have effective preventive controls.

Threat Model view showing NeoBank assets, trust boundaries, STRIDE threats, and mitigating controls.

Threat model view mapping STRIDE threats, trust boundaries, vulnerabilities, and mitigating security controls to applications.Enlarge

Why threat modeling brings clarity

Threat mapping

Connect STRIDE threat vectors and CVE vulnerabilities directly to live system assets.

Control verification

Link preventive and detective controls (WAF, MFA, encryption) to specific risks.

Residual risk

Evaluate inherent versus residual risk across perimeter and backend components.

Regulatory compliance matrix

Framework coverage

Tie compliance standards (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001) directly to live systems.

Audit tracking

Maintain control implementation status and evidence readiness directly in code.

Gap identification

Spotlight unmitigated exposures and missing controls before audit reviews.

Regulatory compliance matrix mapping standards (PCI-DSS, SOX) and policies to governed systems and controls.Enlarge

Decisions enabled

Decisions informed by this model

Direct model queries replace subjective opinions with objective architecture evidence for leadership discussions.

Audit-ready coverage

Gives security leaders a clear view of which critical assets have documented mitigating controls.

Exposure visibility

Surfaces unmitigated threat exposures before security review boards and compliance audits.

Unified governance model

Reduces duplicate compliance documentation by linking policies directly to the architecture model.

Key review question

“Which critical systems or perimeter applications lack documented mitigating controls for their highest-severity threats?”

How your architects maintain it

Defined as clear, structured text

Security and architecture teams model trust boundaries, STRIDE threats, CVE vulnerabilities, mitigating controls, and regulatory standards. Scapius renders connected threat models and compliance matrices from the single architecture graph.

security/security_architecture.ea

DSL

control control_waf "Web Application Firewall" {
    control_type "Preventive"
    framework "PCI-DSS"
    effectiveness "High"
    relationships {
        this protects app_mobile_banking "Filters incoming malicious HTTP requests"
        this mitigates threat_ddos "Absorbs distributed volumetric traffic spikes"
    }
}