ISO 27001:2022
Technological controls – ISO 27001:2022

ISO 27001:2022 8.26: Application security requirements

Information security requirements are to be identified, specified and approved whenever applications are developed or acquired. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): leaves no security requirement unidentified or unaddressed when applications are built or bought. As an Annex A reference control, it is compared with the controls determined in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability as included or excluded, with the justification and implementation status (6.1.3 d); implementation guidance is ISO/IEC 27002:2022 8.26.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 67 controls across 22 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 800-53 Rev 5 · 8 controls

FedRAMP High · 6 controls

  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
  • SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools (SA-15)
  • SA-3 System Development Life Cycle
  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation

FedRAMP Moderate · 6 controls

  • SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation
  • SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools (SA-15)
  • SA-3 System Development Life Cycle
  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation

ISO 27002:2022 · 5 controls

  • 5.8 Information security in project management
  • 8.25 Secure development life cycle
  • 8.26 Application security requirements
  • 8.28 Secure coding
  • 8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance

NIST SP 800-218 · 5 controls

PCI DSS 4.0 · 5 controls

  • 6.2.1 6.2.1 Secure development of bespoke and custom software
  • 6.2.4 6.2.4 Engineering techniques against common software attacks
  • 6.4.1 6.4.1 Public web application review or automated protection
  • 6.3.1 6.3.1 Vulnerability identification and risk ranking
  • 6.5.1 6.5.1 Change control procedure for production

CIS Controls v8 · 4 controls

  • CIS-16.1 Establish and Maintain a Secure Application Development Process
  • CIS-16.10 Apply Secure Design Principles in Application Architectures
  • CIS-16.11 Leverage Vetted Modules or Services for Application Security Components
  • CIS-16.14 Conduct Threat Modeling

SOC 2 · 4 controls

  • SOC2-CC3.2 CC3.2 Identifying and analysing risks to objectives (COSO principle 7)
  • SOC2-CC5.1 CC5.1 Selecting control activities that mitigate risk (COSO principle 10)
  • SOC2-CC5.2 CC5.2 General controls over technology (COSO principle 11)
  • SOC2-CC8.1 CC8.1 Managing changes to procedures, software, data and infrastructure
  • ASBv3-DS-1 Conduct threat modeling
  • ASBv3-DS-5 Integrate dynamic application security testing into DevOps pipeline
  • ASBv3-NS-6 Deploy web application firewall

C5 (Germany) · 3 controls

  • C5-DEV-01 Policies for the development/procurement of information systems
  • C5-PI-01 Documentation and safety of input and output interfaces
  • C5-PSS-09 Authorisation Mechanisms
  • SEC01-BP03 Identify and validate control objectives
  • SEC01-BP07 Identify threats and prioritize mitigations using a threat model

COBIT 2019 · 2 controls

  • BAI02.01 BAI02.01 Define and maintain business functional and technical requirements
  • BAI02.03 BAI02.03 Manage requirements risk
  • CCM-AIS-01 Application and Interface Security Policy and Procedures
  • CCM-AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements

EU AI Act · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2013 · 2 controls

  • A.14.1.2 Securing application services on public networks
  • A.14.1.3 Protecting application services transactions

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 2 controls

  • CFTC-SS-5 Systems Development and Quality Assurance Category

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.11.1 Security requirements of information systems

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · 1 control

  • A.6.2.2 AI system requirements and specification

NIS2 Directive · 1 control

  • Art.21.2.e Security in acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-06 Secure software development practices are integrated, and their performance is monitored throughout the software development life cycle

NIST SP 800-172 · 1 control

  • 3.13.2e Introduce Unpredictability into System Operations

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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