The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a Draft Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment that facilitates communications about secure software development practices among business owners, software developers, and cybersecurity professionals within an organization.
The paper, Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software Development Framework, recommends a core set of high-level secure software development practices, called a secure software development framework (SSDF), to be added to each software development life cycle (SDLC) implementation, NIST said in a statement.
Following these practices should help software producers reduce the number of vulnerabilities in released software, mitigate the potential impact of the exploitation of undetected or unaddressed vulnerabilities, and address the root causes of vulnerabilities to prevent future recurrences. Software consumers can reuse and adapt the practices in their software acquisition processes, NIST recommended.
Publication: SSDF Draft
The public comment period ends August 5, 2019. See the publication details link for a copy of the document and instructions for submitting comments. Email comments to ssdf@nist.gov