compliance

CRA Compliance with OWASP SAMM

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a European regulation that introduces cybersecurity requirements as part of CE marking for products that are placed on the …

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AI

Navigating the AI Frontier: How OWASP SAMM Secures the Next Generation of Software

A recent episode of the SAMM Podcast , featuring SAMM Core Team members Sebastien Deleersnyder (Seba) and Nariman Aga-Tagiyev with Bart De Win as host, explored …

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benchmark

Introducing the SAMM Benchmark Report

The world of software security evolves rapidly, with new challenges and best practices emerging every day. For organizations striving to build robust …

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mapping

Enabling teams with the OWASP SAMM Skills Framework

Picture this: your team is tasked with building secure, compliant software, but you’re not sure where to begin and who to involve. In today’s cloud-driven …

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assessment

SAMM Scoring: Percent to Target and Progress to Date Metrics

A common question among SAMM users is whether specific activities, streams, or entire practices can be marked as not applicable. This seems reasonable: some …

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mapping

Microsoft SDL and OWASP SAMM Mapping: A Comprehensive Analysis

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) was introduced in 2004 as Microsoft’s response to the security challenges that plagued its Windows operating …

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mapping

SAMM BSIMM Mapping

The full mapping sheet between BSIMM 14 and OWASP SAMM. Introduction

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assessment

OWASP SAMM now connects to OpenCRE

We are excited to announce that each OWASP-SAMM stream now uses OpenCRE.org to link to other standards and guidelines. OpenCRE stands for Open Common …

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assessment

Determining scope when implementing SAMM

When performing a SAMM assessment, should the scope be the whole organization or something smaller, like a business unit or a single team? The short answer: …

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assessment

How ISO and SAMM complement each other

October 2022 brought us the third revision of the ISO/IEC 27001 standard.

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assessment

The "Not Applicable" Question

Since the initial publication of SAMM 2.0, several SAMM users have asked how to address Activities or Quality Criteria they believe are not applicable to their …

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mapping

Tackling App Security with SAMM-NIST SSDF Mapping

The increasing dependence on software in our daily lives has made the challenge of ensuring its security more pressing. Despite being a critical concern, …

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community

Introducing SAMM Practitioners

We want to adopt OWASP SAMM 2.0 at my workplace. Can you recommend a company to help us do this?

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guidance

Addressing Log4J vulnerabilities with SAMM

It’s that dreaded notification. The one that holds the threat, and later the reality, of many sleepless nights. The newest vulnerability is here and its …

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training

OWASP SAMM Train the Trainer

To introduce new users to the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM), the SAMM project team has presented their one-day overview training class several …

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SAMM project

Towards a well-governed SAMM Suite

Some years back, SAMM was a typical old school documentation project. Creation of all the documents was a purely manual and error-prone process. We fought a …

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SAMM project

OWASP SAMM Roadmap

This was a special year but still a lot happened for SAMM. The team worked hard to continue delivering and adding value for our users. New version, new website, …

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guidance

Comparing BSIMM & SAMM

BSIMM (Building Security In Maturity Model) and SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) have similar origins dating back to a common origin back in 2008-2009. …

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SAMM project

SAMM is doing CI/CD

A significant change that happened behind the scenes for SAMM 2.0 was the addition of a CI/CD pipeline, the automated version of all the steps we need to …

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SAMM project

OWASP SAMM version 2 - public release

OWASP SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) is the OWASP framework to help organizations assess, formulate, and implement, through our self-assessment model, …

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SAMM project

SAMM V2 community release

After three years of preparation, our SAMM project team has delivered release 2 of SAMM!

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events

Open Security Summit 2019

The Open Security Summit 2019 focused on the collaboration between Developers and Application Security and was organised with the support of OWASP. The 5-day …

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SAMM project

Version 2 Beta

The original model (v1.0) was written by Pravir Chandra and dates back from 2009. Over the last 10 years, it has proven a widely distributed and effective model …

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