Question 1

What is Auspex and what problem does it address?

Accepted Answer

Auspex is an AI-based threat modeling system that encodes threat modeling tradecraft into prompts to reduce the time and resource burden of producing threat models compared with manual processes.

Question 2

How does Auspex work internally?

Accepted Answer

Auspex uses two-stage tradecraft prompting: first it ingests system architecture information to drive decomposition and description, then it chains prompts to support threat identification, classification, and mitigation.

Question 3

What format does Auspex produce as the final result?

Accepted Answer

Auspex produces a formal threat matrix specifying threat scenarios, threat types, information security categorizations, and potential mitigations.