AWS Threat Composer vs ThreatZ

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.

ThreatZ is an automotive cybersecurity management platform for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers tracking vehicle security and supply-chain evidence. It brings TARA, software bills of materials, attack paths, incidents and compliance evidence into a knowledge graph. Threat modeling supports STRIDE TARA, AI-assisted threat scenarios and attack paths with feasibility ratings. ThreatZ generates work products for ISO/SAE 21434, UN R155 and GB 44495-2024; the last requires PRC-region deployment. Its integration list includes more than 30 tools and formats, among them Vector CANoe, MATLAB System Composer, Jira, GitHub and SonarQube. Data interchange options include ReqIF, SARIF, OpenXSAM, STIX, AUTOSAR, PDF, CSV and Excel. Team and Professional are hosted AWS Marketplace subscriptions, while Enterprise supports private cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployment. The listed Team plan costs $1,199 a year, billed annually, and allows up to three projects. Professional is listed at $499 a year, billed annually, for 5–50 users and up to 15 projects; Enterprise is $100 a year with custom billing and unlimited projects and users. A free four-week trial uses sample vehicle data; Professional and Enterprise trials require approval.