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.
Code Review. Code review is made mandatory for all projects so coverage is consistent.
CR1.5 · Make code review mandatory for all projects →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 →Implement branch protection + code review + repository governance per OpenSSF Scorecard checks Branch-Protection + Code-Review + Maintained.
OSSFSC-1 · Branch Protection, Code Review, and Repository Governance →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 →Code reviews are utilised to ensure software meets Secure by Design principles and practices as well as secure programming practices.
ISM-2060 · Code reviews are utilised to ensure software meets Secure by Design principles and practic →Code changes addressing vulnerabilities are developed following secure development practices, peer review, and quality gates equivalent to standard releases.
30111-6.6 · Patch Development and Code Review →Questions people ask about code review
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