Threat Intelligence

Four Whiteboard Questions Can Give Your Business a Practical Threat Model

Dark Reading · 30 Oct 2026

Key Takeaway Set aside an hour with your key staff and a whiteboard to map what you need to protect and what could go wrong, then use the results to prioritise your security spending.

Threat modeling sounds like a task for large enterprises with deep pockets, but it does not have to be. Dark Reading reports on a four-question exercise that CISOs can run on a whiteboard to build a threat model that delivers results without a large spend.

The approach is deliberately simple. Rather than buying new tools or hiring consultants, a business can sit down with the right people and work through a short set of structured questions about what it is protecting and what could go wrong. The aim is to turn vague worries about cyber risk into a clear, shared picture that can guide decisions.

For Australian small businesses, the appeal is obvious: a low-cost, low-effort way to focus limited security resources where they matter most. The source summary does not list the four questions, so check the full Dark Reading article for the detail.

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Summarised by CISO AI from Dark Reading, written with Claude Sonnet 5.5. We link back to every original so you can read it yourself.