Rocheston Bento – AI Threat Modelling Studio
What Is Threat Modelling?
Threat modelling is the process of mapping a system so you can identify how it can be attacked, what can go wrong, what data is at risk, and what defenses must exist before you ship. A threat model answers simple questions: What are we building? What can break? Where are the trust boundaries?
Why Threat Modelling Is Mandatory
Every modern system has APIs, third-party integrations, cloud services, identity tokens, and data flows that can be abused. Threat modelling makes hidden risk visible before incidents happen. It prevents the classic failures: weak authentication, broken authorization, missing logging, insecure data flows, secrets exposure, and privilege escalation paths.
Why Most Teams Avoid It
Teams avoid threat modelling because most tools are slow, complex, and feel like compliance paperwork. People waste time drawing shapes, aligning boxes, hunting templates, and exporting documents. The result is predictable: threat modelling happens once, then dies.
Rocheston Bento Solves the Speed Problem
Bento removes friction by combining a clean drag-and-drop canvas with a library of predefined boxes, cyber icons, and ready-made action item objects. You do not create shapes from scratch. You insert structured components, label flows, apply STRIDE, and record mitigations in minutes.
AINA Makes Bento AI-Enabled
Rocheston AINA turns Bento into an AI-first threat modelling studio. AINA can generate complete diagram layouts, flowcharts, and infographic-style visuals from your system description. It can also help clean up spacing, alignment, and structure so your model looks professional immediately.
How Bento Works
Bento follows a simple workflow built for RCCE students: 1) generate or drag in architecture components, 2) connect them with data flows, 3) draw trust boundaries, 4) apply STRIDE threats, 5) add mitigation action items, 6) click Save.
What Is STRIDE?
STRIDE is a threat modelling method that ensures you do not miss major classes of threats. It categorizes threats into six buckets that cover how attackers break systems: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege.
STRIDE Explained: Spoofing
Spoofing is when an attacker pretends to be someone else. This includes stolen passwords, stolen tokens, session hijacking, forged identities, bypassed login flows, and impersonating internal services. In Bento, spoofing threats are commonly attached to login endpoints, token flows, and service-to-service identity.
STRIDE Explained: Tampering
Tampering is unauthorized modification of data, messages, requests, or configuration. This includes injection attacks, modified payloads, manipulated API parameters, altered configuration, and corrupted data at rest. In Bento, tampering threats often appear on data flows, API boundaries, and storage components.
STRIDE Explained: Repudiation
Repudiation is when actions cannot be proven because logs are missing, incomplete, or untrusted. This is how fraud lives: users deny actions, attackers erase evidence, and teams cannot reconstruct timelines. In Bento, repudiation threats connect directly to missing audit logs, weak event tracking, and poor traceability.
STRIDE Explained: Information Disclosure
Information disclosure is leakage of sensitive data such as PII, PHI, PCI data, secrets, keys, tokens, or confidential files. It includes weak encryption, misconfigured storage, over-permissive APIs, and data exposure in logs. In Bento, this category maps strongly to data stores, export functions, and admin panels.
STRIDE Explained: Denial of Service
Denial of Service is when attackers make your system unavailable or degrade it through abuse, overload, resource exhaustion, or dependency failure. This includes request floods, expensive queries, queue overload, storage exhaustion, and rate-limit bypass. In Bento, DoS threats attach to public endpoints, queues, databases, and critical dependencies.
STRIDE Explained: Elevation of Privilege
Elevation of Privilege is when an attacker gains higher access than intended. This includes broken authorization, privilege escalation, role bypass, insecure admin features, and path-based access flaws. In Bento, EoP is commonly mapped around RBAC, admin workflows, service accounts, and internal APIs.
How STRIDE Works in Bento
In Bento, you apply STRIDE by mapping components and flows first, then assigning STRIDE categories to each component and data flow. For every STRIDE-tagged threat, you add a mitigation action item. This turns STRIDE from theory into a measurable security checklist attached directly to your architecture.
The Bento Building Blocks
Bento includes predefined boxes for threat modelling: External Entity, Process, Data Store, Web App, Backend API, Microservice, Auth Service, Token Service, Session Store, API Gateway, Trust Boundary, and more. Add cyber icons for controls such as MFA, WAF, encryption, KMS, Vault, logging, SIEM, monitoring, and rate limiting.
Action Items Turn Models Into Plans
Threat modelling is only valuable when it produces mitigations. Bento lets you attach action items directly inside the diagram with ownership and status. A threat model becomes a security plan you can execute: what must be done, who owns it, and what is completed.
Bento Screenshot
RCCE students can model a typical system fast: Browser → WAF/CDN → API Gateway → Backend API → Database/Cache → Object Storage. Label flows like JWT, PII, uploads, audit logs.
“If you can model it in minutes, you will model it every time.”
Built for Modern AI-First Learning
Bento is designed for the way students learn today. Diagrams are structured, labelled, and STRIDE-tagged, which makes them easier to review, explain, and refine using AI tools during learning. This helps RCCE students move faster: clear architecture, clear threats, clear mitigations.
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Rocheston Bento is available now for RCCE students. Build AI-generated threat models, apply STRIDE systematically, track mitigation action items, and develop security architecture skills that translate directly into real-world cybersecurity engineering.
