Code Review
What is Code Review?
The systematic examination of source code to identify security vulnerabilities, coding errors, and deviations from secure coding standards before deployment.
Terms that appear alongside code review
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as code review. The number is how many controls name both.
- secure coding 11 shared controls
- security testing 8 shared controls
- threat modelling 5 shared controls
- vulnerability 5 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- authentication 3 shared controls
- owasp 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern code review
What the standards actually require on code review
Requirements naming code review across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Where bespoke and custom software is reviewed manually before it goes to production, each code change must be: examined by someone other than the person who wrote it, who is knowledgeable about secure coding practice and techniques for reviewing code;
6.2.3.1 · 6.2.3.1 Manual code review independence and approval →Code Review. Code review is made mandatory for all projects so coverage is consistent.
CR1.5 · Make code review mandatory for all projects →To minimise bugs and vulnerabilities the FI should adopt standards on secure coding, source code review and application security testing, covering secure programming, input validation, output encoding, access controls, authentication, cryptographic practices a...
monetary-authority-of-singapore-technology-risk-management-guidelines::6.1 · 6.1 Secure Coding, Source Code Review and Application Security Testing →Perform the code review and/or code analysis based on the organization's secure coding standards, and record and triage the discovered issues.
SP800-218-PW.7.2 · Perform Code Review and Analysis →Aim for every change merged into a product to go through a quality check, for example review by a second developer or deliberate error seeding.
secure-by-design-a-guide-for-manufacturers-cisa::DT-7 · Code review (SSDF PW.7.1, PW.7.2) →Require peer review on every code change with explicit security review criteria, and use CodeGuru Reviewer or similar to augment human review.
SEC11-BP04 · Conduct code reviews →Questions people ask about code review
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