Methods and systems for architecture-centric threat modeling, analysis and visualization

A method for use in network architecture threat modeling, said method comprising:

• receiving, by a computing device, a user selection of at least a first network object and a second network object from a plurality of network objects stored in a memory device;
• creating, by the computing device, a network architecture including the first network object and the second network object;
• associating, by the computing device, a plurality of attributes of the selected network objects stored in the memory device with the network architecture;
• displaying, on a display device, a graphical representation of the created network architecture;
• receiving, from the user, at least one dataflow attribute associated with at least one of the first and second network objects;
• and
• storing the at least one dataflow attribute to the memory device as an attribute of at least one of the plurality of network objects.

A computer readable medium having embodied thereon nontransitory computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• create a network architecture in response to a user input, the network architecture including at least a first network object and a second network object stored on a memory device;
• associate a stored plurality of attributes with the selected first and second network objects;
• display, on the display device, a graphical representation of the created network architecture;
• and
• store at least one dataflow attribute received from the user to the memory device as an attribute of at least one of the first and second network objects.