Annex A 8.28
New in 2022Secure coding
Secure coding principles are applied to software development.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022. Show standards, tooling in the pipeline, and how developers are trained. Where AI assistants generate code, expect questions about review of their output.
Where it usually fails
Static analysis runs in the pipeline and its findings are not gating, so they accumulate unaddressed.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- None. Introduced in the 2022 revision.
Control number and title are identifiers used as references. The classification above is our own analysis, aligned to the shape of the ISO 27002 attribute model rather than reproduced from it, and no text from the standard appears on this page. Last reviewed 2026-08-03.
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