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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Advanced

LINDDUN

Privacy threat modeling framework identifying threats such as linkability, identifiability, and non-compliance.

Definition

LINDDUN categories are Linking, Identifying, Non-repudiation, Detecting, Data Disclosure, Unawareness and Unintervenability, and Non-compliance. Analysts build data flow diagrams, map threats to elements, and select privacy-enhancing mitigations. It is the privacy analogue to STRIDE.

Example

Threat modeling shows that analytics events could be linked across devices, a Linking threat.

Exam tip

LINDDUN is for privacy threats; STRIDE is for security threats.

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