AI & ML Threat Modeling

The AI systems you're shipping have a design too. Model it.

Models, agents, and the pipelines that feed them introduce components and trust boundaries that traditional reviews never had to account for. ThreatModeler® Nexus™ brings the same architecture-first discipline to AI systems, so the risk in how they're designed is understood before it reaches production.

Finding flaws is fast now. Knowing what's missing is the hard part.

Two problems at once

AI writes more of the code, and AI is more of the system.

Teams are securing software that AI helped write, and securing the AI systems themselves. Both need a current picture of the intended design, because a model can find what's present in code but not the control that should exist and doesn't.

"A frontier model can flag issues in our code in minutes. So why do we still feel exposed?"
Because the value moved. When finding flaws is cheap, the work becomes confirming what matters, catching what is missing from the design, and proving the answer. ThreatModeler Nexus reasons from intended design, so it surfaces the absent control, not only the visible one.
"Our AI features ship faster than we can review them, and the architecture keeps moving."
Model where the code lands. For AI-generated code with no design doc, the System Mapping Agent infers the structure from the repository, and the Secure Design Graph grounds that picture in the decisions and context that live outside it.
"Threat modeling an agentic system isn't the same as threat modeling a web app."
Use methodologies built for it. ThreatModeler Nexus supports established methodologies including STRIDE and PASTA, and MAESTRO for agentic systems, so AI components are modeled with frameworks suited to how they actually fail.
Governed AI, securing AI

The platform you use to secure AI is governed itself.

ThreatModeler Nexus is a threat modeling platform first: it shows what could go wrong in a system so you can design the risk out. When that system is an AI system, the same discipline applies, and the platform's own AI runs under enterprise control.

Architecture-first

Model the AI system

Capture the models, data flows, and trust boundaries of an AI system as a threat model, so its design risk is visible the way any other system's is.

Grounded

Facts, not assumptions

The Secure Design Graph anchors the model in the system's real decisions and context, turning an inferred picture of AI-generated code into ground truth you can reason about.

Governed

AI under your control

Bring-your-own-AI operates within a governed, deterministic framework, on your architectural context and approved security content, with no hard-coded keys.

AI-specific threat coverage

The threats unique to AI systems, named and mapped.

AI systems introduce components and attack surfaces that traditional threat modeling was never designed to cover. The Secure Design Graph includes curated threat libraries specific to AI and ML systems, grounded in the frameworks that define how they fail.

Adversarial inputs

Prompt injection and model manipulation

Prompt injection attacks, jailbreaks, and adversarial input attacks targeting model behavior. MITRE ATLAS categorizes these at the framework level; the Secure Design Graph maps them to your system's specific AI components and data flows.

Training and data

Data poisoning and supply chain

Training data poisoning, backdoor attacks, and model supply chain compromise: threats that operate at the data and pipeline level rather than at inference time, and require a design-level view of the ML pipeline to find.

Model security

Model theft and extraction

Model inversion, model extraction, and membership inference attacks that target the model itself as an asset. Understanding these requires a threat model of how the model is served, queried, and protected, not just a scan of the code around it.

Frameworks for AI threat modeling

Methodologies built for how AI systems actually fail.

OWASP and MITRE have both extended their frameworks to cover AI-specific threats. ThreatModeler Nexus includes curated coverage for MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems), OWASP Agentic AI Threats & Mitigations (2025), and MAESTRO for enterprise agentic system alignment. These complement STRIDE and PASTA for AI components, rather than replacing them.

MITRE ATLAS. Adversarial tactics, techniques, and case studies for AI systems: mapped to the AI components and data flows in your model.
OWASP Agentic AI Threats & Mitigations (2025). The OWASP framework for emerging agentic system vulnerabilities, kept current as agentic architectures evolve.
MAESTRO. The framework for multi-agent enterprise system alignment: covering the orchestration, trust, and governance layers that agentic workflows introduce.
CISA Secure by Design for AI. CISA guidance that AI systems must be secure by design. ThreatModeler is a CISA Secure by Design Pledge signatory.
28+ specialized AI/ML components. A curated library of AI-specific components in the Secure Design Graph, including model servers, training pipelines, feature stores, and vector databases.

See what could go wrong, before it does.