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Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Threat models must be documented and reviewed for each application release and updated as required by design and functionality changes or when new threats are discovered.

    Threat modeling is an approach for analyzing the security of an application. It is a structured approach that enables you to identify, quantify, and address the security risks associated with an ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The application must be decommissioned when maintenance or support is no longer available.

    Unsupported software products should not be used because fixes to newly identified bugs will not be implemented by the vendor or development team. The lack of security updates can result in potenti...
    Rule High Severity
  • Procedures must be in place to notify users when an application is decommissioned.

    When maintenance no longer exists for an application, there are no individuals responsible for making security updates. The application support staff should maintain procedures for decommissioning....
    Rule Low Severity
  • An Application Configuration Guide must be created and included with the application.

    The Application Configuration Guide is any document or collection of documents used to configure the application. These documents may be part of a user guide, secure configuration guide, or any gu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The designer must ensure uncategorized or emerging mobile code is not used in applications.

    By definition, mobile code is software obtained from remote systems outside the enclave boundary, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local system without explicit i...
    Rule Medium Severity

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