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Secure SDLC Guidance

Document owner: [Owner/Role]
Approved by: [Steering Committee / CISO]
Effective date: [YYYY-MM-DD]
Review cadence: [Annually]


1. Purpose & Scope

Implementation guidance for the Secure Software Development Lifecycle Policy. Applies to engineering teams.


2. Tooling Patterns

  • SAST: run in CI on every PR, not just nightly — catch it before merge, not after.
  • Dependency scanning: Dependabot/Renovate + a vulnerability scanner (e.g., Snyk, Trivy, npm audit/pip-audit) gated in CI.
  • SBOM: generate via CycloneDX or SPDX tooling as a build artifact, not a one-off manual exercise.
  • Secret scanning: pre-commit hook + CI-time scan — see Secrets & Key Management Guidance §4.

3. ASVS Level — How to Decide

  • Level 1: internal tools, low sensitivity, no kill-chain adjacency.
  • Level 2: anything externally exposed, anything touching TLP:AMBER+ data, anything adjacent to a kill-chain system per Authentication Policy §2.1.
  • Level 3: reserve for the kill-chain systems themselves (IdP, PKI, payment processing) — not the default; apply deliberately.

4. Threat Modeling — Lightweight Version

  • STRIDE walkthrough in a design doc before build starts for anything hitting ASVS Level 2+.
  • Doesn't need a dedicated meeting for every feature — fold it into design review for qualifying systems only.

5. Checklist

SAST + dependency scan gates block merge on new critical/high findings.
SBOM generated per production build.
Threat model documented for kill-chain-adjacent systems before build.
Pen test scheduled annually for externally exposed production apps.
No hardcoded secrets — verified by scanner, not just code review.


6. References