Turvallisen kehittämisen politiikka

The organization has defined a process for addressing identified technical vulnerabilities.

Some vulnerabilities can be fixed directly, but vulnerabilities that have a significant impact should also be documented as security incidents. Once a vulnerability with significant impacts has been identified:

• risks related to the vulnerability and the necessary actions are identified (e.g. patching the system or other management tasks)
• necessary actions are scheduled
• all actions taken are documented

The general rules for secure development work have been drawn up and approved by the development managers. The implementation of the rules is monitored in software development in the organization and the rules are reviewed at least yearly.

The safe development policy may include e.g. the following things:

• safety requirements of the development environment
• instructions for secure coding of the programming languages used
• safety requirements at the design stage of properties or projects
• secure software repositories
• version control security requirements
• the skills required from developers to avoid, discover and fix vulnerabilities
• compliance with secure coding standards

Compliance with the rules of secure development may also be required of key partners.