

You can create your base entity, if you want: you are not limited to the pre-defined ones. Under the Generic entities, you will find the specialized entities, like the OS Process, the Thread, the Web Application and so on.

Please consider that this series of articles is not about the basic concepts of Threat Modeling: you should already know what a Process is. In other words, you will find in the first level items like the Generic Process, the Generic External Interactor and so on. The Tab shows a two levels tree, with the first level defining the basic entities, and the second level the specialized ones. This new article discusses the first Tab in the Template Editor, which is dedicated to creating and modifying the various entities that are used within the model. The first one, where I introduced how to create your own Template, can be found in Threat Modeling Templates: how to start your own. Welcome to the second article about how to create your Threat Modeling Templates.
