EvidenceSheet

16.10 Apply Secure Design Principles in Application Architectures

Apply secure design principles in application architectures. Secure design principles include the concept of least privilege and enforcing mediation to validate every operation that the user makes, promoting the concept

4
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
at each review
moderate
to go live
Cloud console / configuration management
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Configuration / tooling output demonstrating the safeguard · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence the safeguard is implemented: Apply Secure Design Principles in Application Architectures · Document repository
  • Records showing the safeguard is operating (logs, reports, reviews) · SIEM / log platform

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Policy/standard covering CIS Control 16 (Application Software Security) · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (Cloud console / configuration management); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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