Secure development life cycle

The organization must maintain a list of digital services provided and the owners designated for them. The owner is responsible for completing the information in the service and for any other security measures that are closely related to the service.

The documentation related to the digital service includes e.g. the following information:

• The type of digital service offered, the service category and the purpose of use
• Data controller and related processing agreements
• Key partners in the service supply chain and the distribution of security responsibilities (discussed in more detail in a separate task)

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.