AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar
Application Security

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar SEC11-BP04: Conduct code reviews

Require peer review on every code change with explicit security review criteria, and use CodeGuru Reviewer or similar to augment human review.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 32 controls across 16 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

NIST SP 800-218 · 4 controls

C5 (Germany) · 3 controls

  • C5-DEV-06 Testing changes
  • C5-DEV-09 Approvals for provision in the production environment
  • C5-PSS-02 Identification of Vulnerabilities of the Cloud Service

FedRAMP High · 3 controls

  • CM-4 Impact Analyses
  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
  • SA-11(1) Developer Testing and Evaluation | Static Code Analysis (SA-11(1))

FedRAMP Moderate · 3 controls

  • CM-4 Impact Analyses
  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
  • SA-11(1) Developer Testing and Evaluation | Static Code Analysis (SA-11(1))

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 3 controls

CIS Controls v8 · 2 controls

  • CIS-16.1 Establish and Maintain a Secure Application Development Process
  • CIS-16.12 Implement Code-Level Security Checks

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 8.25 Secure development life cycle
  • 8.28 Secure coding

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 2 controls

PCI DSS 4.0 · 2 controls

  • 6.2.3 6.2.3 Code review before release
  • 6.2.3.1 6.2.3.1 Manual code review independence and approval
  • DS-6 Enforce security of workload throughout DevOps lifecycle
  • CCM-AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-06 Secure software development practices are integrated, and their performance is monitored throughout the software development life cycle
  • 03.16.01 Security Engineering Principles

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC8.1 CC8.1 Managing changes to procedures, software, data and infrastructure

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar SEC11-BP04 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar your existing evidence covers. Hold NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and 52 of 63 AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar controls already carry evidence.

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