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Microsoft Visio is recognized for its robust set of features to help anyone create quality flowcharts and data-flow diagrams.

Pros

Visio provides drag-and-drop functionality and the ability to annotate diagrams. Both are helpful when creating a diagram for your system.

Cons

The application doesn't offer automated threat-modeling capabilities. As a result, there's no threat-generation engine to help engineers brainstorm threats and risk-reduction strategies.

Note

If you use Visio, you'll be responsible for threat modeling each element and interaction manually.

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What benefit does Visio not provide?

Provides drag-and-drop functionality with default stencils.

Outputs a list of generated threats to help engineers brainstorm possible ways to reduce or eliminate risk.

Allows engineers to annotate their dataflow diagrams to provide service context.

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