What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on PO.2.2 Training and Skills Maintenance?

Secure coding training catalog by role; Completion records integrated with HR systems; Annual refresh policy; Metrics tying training to defect reduction.

What is the most common gap auditors find on PO.2.2?

training is the same one off course for every role

NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF) · Prepare the Organization

`PO.2.2` Training and Skills Maintenance

Provide role appropriate secure development training and maintain skills through ongoing learning. Track completion and refresh training when standards or technologies change.

Source: NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF), PO.2.2. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF) in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

HR system / LMS

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Completion records integrated with HR systems · HR system / LMS

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Secure coding training catalog by role · HR system / LMS
Annual refresh policy · HR system / LMS
Metrics tying training to defect reduction · HR system / LMS

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

training is the same one off course for every role
completion not enforced and not visible to managers
no measurement of training effectiveness

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.

Build my evidence sheet

PO.2.1 Roles and Responsibilities for Secure Development · PO.2.3 Obtain Management Commitment to Secure Development