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Policy Compliance

What is Policy Compliance?

Adherence to an organization's internal policies, standards, and procedures by employees and other stakeholders.

Governance

What the standards actually require on policy compliance

Requirements naming policy compliance across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

OWASP SAMM1 control

Per OWASP SAMM v2 Governance business function: establish strategic + policy + education foundations. Security Practices: (1) Strategy and Metrics including security strategy + application risk profile + maturity measurement + (2) Policy and Compliance includi...

OWASPSAMM-1 · Governance: Strategy, Policy, Compliance, Education, Champions
BSIMM1 control

Compliance & Policy. A software security policy is created to satisfy regulatory and customer-driven security requirements and to govern the SSDL.

CP1.3 · Create software security policy

Validate workloads at deployment via admission control: verify image provenance/signatures, policy compliance and configuration before admitting to the cluster.

CNCF-DEP-PREFLIGHT · Pre-Flight Deployment Checks

WebAuthn attestation per L3 6.5 + FIDO Authenticator Allowed Cryptography List. Attestation provides assurance about the authenticator's origin + characteristics.

FIDO2-Attestation · Attestation Statement Formats and Verification

Questions people ask about policy compliance

What is Policy Compliance?
Adherence to an organization's internal policies, standards, and procedures by employees and other stakeholders.
Why is Policy Compliance important for compliance?
Policy Compliance is a key concept in Governance. Understanding policy compliance helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Policy Compliance?
Policy Compliance appears in the requirement text of OWASP SAMM, BSIMM, CNCF Security Technical Advisory Group (TAG), FIDO2 / WebAuthn. Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Policy Compliance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how policy compliance applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Policy Compliance applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.