Who this is for

Built for all internally developed software, APIs, mobile applications, infrastructure as code, and significant customizations to COTS products by your organization engineering tea…

Every section below is included in your download, summaries only shown here, not the policy text.

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  Document control

  Owner, version, review cycle, and approval fields ready to customize.

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  Purpose

  Why this policy exists and the outcomes it supports.

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  Scope

  Who and what systems, locations, and activities are in scope.

• 3

  Definitions

  Key terms defined in a table for consistent interpretation.

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  Roles and responsibilities

  Accountability for executives, owners, managers, staff, and IT.

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  Policy requirements

  Numbered, audit-ready controls you can adopt or tailor.

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  Exceptions, monitoring, enforcement

  Exception process, review cadence, and consequences of non-compliance.

• 9–10

  Regional compliance and framework mapping

  US, EU, and global obligations plus mapped control themes.

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  Appendices

  Customization notes, document history, and approval signatures.

Requirement themes addressed, not the verbatim policy language.

• Define SSDLC phases with mandatory security activities: threat modeling, secure…
• Integrate SAST, SCA
• Require security training for developers at hire and annually on OWASP Top 10 and…
• Maintain software bill of materials (SBOM) for production releases and monitor for…
• Apply least-privilege access to source repositories, build systems
• Conduct penetration testing for internet-facing and high-risk applications before…
• Remediate critical and high vulnerabilities within defined SLAs based on…
• Separate development, test
• Include security acceptance criteria in definition of done for user stories and…
• Report SSDLC metrics (defect density, scan coverage, remediation times) to security…