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What is Polaris?

Polaris offers anyone with a web browser to design and analyze the structural security posture of their system. Polaris simplifies the structural security posture analysis into three steps: Design, Analyze, and Summarize.

How does Polaris help in designing secure systems?

Polaris helps system architects, developers, evaluators, and certifiers analyze their system’s structural security posture. Structural security posture is a security evaluation approach to evaluate a system’s preparedness to deal with knowable threats based on its structural view and to enhance the developer’s security knowledge of the system. The structural security posture uses a collection of metrics to reflect a system’s security. It also leverages external data sources to guide the identification of vulnerabilities (thanks to integration with Merak). Polaris also enables practitioners to perform what-if analyses to improve their system’s security and make appropriate design decisions.

Did you know?

The name Polaris refers to the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation. It is commonly referred to as North Star as it has been historically used by navigators to orient towards Earth’s north pole.