THREAT-MODEL.md

Threat model

This repository is intended to support token caching, wrapper functions, bulk operations, error handling and export patterns. The examples are deliberately conservative and should be adapted to the target environment.

Assets to protect

• administrative credentials and API tokens
• message-routing configuration and connectivity metadata
• exported operational evidence and support artefacts
• architecture assumptions such as trusted networks, DNS, certificates and routing paths

Typical threat themes

• over-privileged identities used for automation
• secrets leaking into scripts, CI variables or shell history
• unreviewed changes to mail routing, firewall or integration settings
• limited observability during incidents or post-change verification
• drift between documentation, actual configuration and operator understanding

Mitigation ideas

• separate operator, approver and reviewer roles
• keep secrets in a dedicated secret store and inject them at runtime
• capture pre-change and post-change evidence for significant actions
• design rollback and break-glass paths before rollout
• use non-production validation and change windows for intrusive changes