AWS Threat Composer vs CYMETRIS

AWS Threat Composer is a threat-modeling project for identifying security issues and developing ways to address them. Its structured threat grammar offers adaptive suggestions for composing threat statements. Models can include architecture and data-flow diagrams, tracked assumptions, links between threats and mitigations, and an insights dashboard with quality metrics and improvement suggestions. Users can manage multiple models and export them as JSON, Markdown, DOCX, or PDF. The web application stores data in the browser, supports import and export, and is available as a hosted demo or as a static site deployed in an AWS account. The VS Code extension in AWS Toolkit edits .tc.json files, works offline, and stores data locally. A browser extension displays threat model files on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Amazon CodeCatalyst; it is read-only and requires internet access for web-hosted files. The AI-assisted CLI and MCP server can analyze source code to create starter models, but the tools are experimental. They use AWS Bedrock, and inference costs apply.

CYMETRIS is a cyber risk analysis and TARA platform for work across a product lifecycle. Its guided workflow follows ISO/SAE 21434 and applies automated consistency and logic checks. Teams can inspect attack paths interactively and map risks to components in system architecture, with risk prioritization, collaborative review, templates, frameworks, and multiple modeling methods. CYMETRIS Lite generates audit-ready reports for ISO/SAE 21434 and UN R155. The maker describes AI assistance through MCP for importing architectures, identifying assets, developing attack vectors, and querying TARA datasets in natural language. A public API is intended to connect requirements, architecture, PLM, ticketing, ALM, and reporting systems. Vulnerabilities can be imported from CVE databases, vendor advisories, or internal analyses and mapped to affected components; this capability is described as a selected-customer prototype. Access is available through web, API, or self-hosted deployment. Lite costs €99.00 per month, includes one full TARA project, and allows up to five active projects.