Understanding continuous security review readiness

Each development and release team must establish a security readiness review for an application, software, hardware, or service before each release.

The following subsections discuss a checklist of evidence that’s required to assess the security readiness of the release of an application. It is recommended to automate the validation of the following evidence evaluation and integrate its automation with the DevOps pipeline.

Multiple areas should be evaluated for the security readiness review for each release. Those areas and the corresponding checklist of evidence that is required to assess it will be discussed in detail. In addition, each criterion requires a set of evidence to establish whether the platform is compliant with the corresponding criteria.

Authentication and access management

We need to enforce authentication and access control on all public interfaces and service components, including password complexity...