Former CIA and NSA Officer to Teach Threat Modeling Workshop
Summary
A workshop led by Ross Young, a former CIA and NSA officer and corporate CISO, was scheduled for March 31, 2026. It was to cover the TaSM framework, threat prioritization, security metrics, and budget justification.
Key points
- The virtual workshop was scheduled for March 31, 2026, at 12:30 PM PST.
- Ross Young is described as a former CIA and NSA officer and former CISO at Caterpillar Financial and Capital One.
- The session was to teach the OWASP Threat-centric Application Security Methodology (TaSM) for prioritizing material threats.
- Planned topics included connecting security spending to business outcomes and integrating TaSM with STRIDE-LM for application security reviews.
- Attendees were offered templates, an interactive TaSM tool, metrics examples, and a collaborative threat-modeling exercise.
- The listed price was $20 for non-members and free for Cybersecurity Club members.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Threat-modeling workshop announcement
- Impact
- The workshop offers training on the TaSM framework and threat modeling; the article reports no security incident or operational impact.