Security Analysis

Roles: attack-surface, threat-model, blast-radius, defense-layer, trust-zone, vulnerability, exploit

The analytical practices used to reason about security threats, defenses, and risk. As a target domain, security analysis absorbs metaphors from warfare (attack surfaces, defense in depth, blast radius), medicine (vulnerabilities as weaknesses, patching as treatment), and biology (immune response, adaptive defense). The domain’s vocabulary reveals which source frames dominate practitioner reasoning — and which blind spots each frame creates.

Applied To This Frame (7)

• war → Attack Surface
• war → Blast Radius
• war → Defense in Depth
• toxicology → Poison Pill
• biology → Security Is an Immune System
• fluid-dynamics → Source and Sink Analysis
• logistics → Supply Chain Attack