Overview
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are being told to threat model continuously, but most do not have stable architecture diagrams, spare security capacity, or clean ownership. Continuous threat modeling is an operating model problem before it is a tooling problem. Artificial intelligence (AI) can reduce the cost of system understanding and first-pass analysis, but it does not replace accountable risk decisions. The executive decision is clear. Pilot AI-assisted threat modeling for one material system, with human validation and governance gates. Do not fund enterprise-scale automation until ownership, data-use rules, review triggers, and remediation paths are in place.
What Is Happening
Threat modeling is not new. The practical problem is that it assumes conditions many SMEs do not have, including, a current system view, named owners, documented data flows, and enough security capacity to revisit the model when the system changes. OWASP frames threat modeling …