Threat or Risk?

Differentiation between threats and risks are crucial part of architecture design. Designing and implementing a solution based on threat patterns instead of analysed risks, may lead to unstable and extreme expensive situations.

What is the difference between threat and risk? Threat is a potential issues in the future what we afraid of. Risk is a threat, which we analysed probability and potential (negative) impact. This means threat is more an emotional thing, a kind of theoretical thing, while risk is more practical.