ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
Your company's Secure Coding Standard states that every externally facing API must implement server-side input validation. During sprint planning for a new microservice, what is the most effective way to enforce this company-wide requirement so that the development team consistently complies?
Include the validation rule as a mandatory acceptance criterion in each relevant user story's definition of done.
Record the validation rule in the technical-debt backlog to address after the first release.
Omit the validation rule because it is not required by external regulation.
Let individual developers decide whether to implement validation based on perceived risk.
Embedding the rule as a mandatory acceptance criterion in each user story (often captured in the definition of done) makes the requirement visible, testable, and a condition for work completion. This ensures every developer and reviewer checks for input validation before code is merged. Simply logging the rule as technical debt postpones compliance, delegating the decision to individual developers undermines consistency, and ignoring it because it is not externally mandated contradicts the internal standard that employees are contractually obliged to follow.
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