Security That Starts With Design and Stays Aligned As You Ship
Turn architecture and product intent into living threat models, risks, and requirements that stay aligned as software evolves.
When Design Intent Drifts, Risk Creeps In
Threat modeling and security requirements are often:
- Created as one-time exercises that go stale
- Maintained in disconnected documents and tools
- Difficult to update as architecture changes
- Detached from what ultimately ships
The result is growing gaps between design assumptions and the software teams ultimately ship.
Finite State makes design-time security a maintainable, continuous workflow that stays connected to shipped software.
Architecture, threats, risks, requirements, and verification evolve together from design, to build, to release.
Instead of static threat models, teams work from living design intent that can be reviewed, verified, and defended across releases.
Key Capabilities
Assurance Studio
Generate and maintain structured threat models directly from architecture and design artifacts, so threat modeling scales without becoming manual or stale.
Automated threat generation from architecture inputs
Threats mapped to real components, interfaces, and trust boundaries
Support for expert review, edits, and overrides
Maintainable threat models across releases
Traceability to risks, requirements, and verification
Architecture Ingestion & Visualization
Translate architecture artifacts into actionable system representations, so security analysis starts from a shared, concrete understanding of the product.
Ingest architecture documents and specifications
Automatically derive components, interfaces, and trust boundaries
Visualize data flows and security-relevant relationships
Maintain linkage to downstream software artifacts
Risk Assessments
Evaluate threats for likelihood and impact, enabling teams to focus design effort on the areas that create the most exposure.
Risk scoring and classification
Risk concentration and heatmap views
Tracking risk changes across releases
Clear linkage to mitigations and requirements
Security Requirements Generation
Derive security requirements directly from threats, risks, and controls, so design intent becomes explicit, testable, and enforceable downstream.
Automatically generated, testable requirements
Mapping between requirements and mitigated threats
Reusable requirements across product variants
Alignment with compliance and policy controls
Design -> Build Reconciliation
Continuously reconcile design assumptions with shipped software, so architectural drift is detected before it turns into production risk.
Detection of architectural drift
Identification of re-verification needs as software changes
Continuous linkage to SBOM and vulnerability data
Visibility into gaps between design intent and shipped reality
The Design-Time Security Lifecycle
Turn architecture and product intent into a structured, maintainable lifecycle that feeds verification, release readiness, and compliance downstream.
Ingest Architecture
Capture system intent directly from design artifacts and documentation.
Model Threats
Systematically identify threats tied to real components, interfaces, and trust boundaries.
Assess Risk
Evaluate likelihood and impact to understand where exposure concentrates.
Define Security Requirements
Translate risk into explicit, testable expectations
Plan Verification
Define how requirements will be proven and what evidence is required.
Reconcile with Shipped Software
Validate that design assumptions remain true as software, dependencies, and configurations change.
What This Unlocks
Design-time intent becomes something you can continuously verify and prove.
Verification & Evidence Generation
Threats and requirements define exactly what must be tested, validated, and evidenced downstream.
Release Readiness
Design assumptions remain aligned with shipped builds, reducing late-cycle surprises and rework.
Automated Compliance
Architecture, risk, and requirements become traceable inputs to regulatory controls and audits.
Trusted by Product Security Teams
Proven results across automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer IoT.
Ready to Make Design-Time Security Maintainable?
See how Finite State turns architecture and product intent into living threat models, requirements, and verification that scale across releases.