Secure Software Engineering Standard¶

Version: 1.0.0

Status: official

Author: Enterprise AI Standards

Description¶

Official engineering standard for designing, developing and operating secure enterprise software across frontend, backend, databases, infrastructure and cloud environments.

Objective¶

Establish mandatory security practices to minimize vulnerabilities, protect sensitive information and ensure secure software by design.

Philosophy¶

Security is not a feature. Security is an engineering requirement. Every layer of the system must assume that attackers already exist.

Principles¶

Secure by Default.
Least Privilege.
Defense in Depth.
Zero Trust.
Fail Secure.
Secure by Design.
Encryption Everywhere.
Never Trust User Input.
Continuous Verification.
Security Automation.

Project Structure¶

Language Features¶

Virtual Threads¶

Structured Concurrency¶

Records¶

Sealed Classes¶

Pattern Matching¶

Collections¶

Streams¶

Optional¶

Exceptions¶

Logging¶

Never log passwords.
Never log JWTs.
Never log secrets.
Correlation IDs.

Performance¶

Security¶

Testing¶

Observability¶

Documentation¶

Best Practices¶

Zero Trust.
Defense in Depth.
Principle of Least Privilege.
MFA.
JWT.
Secret Management.
HTTPS Everywhere.
Continuous Scanning.
Secure Defaults.

Anti Patterns¶

Hardcoded Passwords.
Hardcoded API Keys.
Disabled Authentication.
Disabled Authorization.
SQL Concatenation.
Trusting Client Validation.
Logging Secrets.
Wildcard CORS.
Running Docker as Root.
Public Admin Endpoints.

Review Checklist¶

[ ] JWT configured.
[ ] RBAC implemented.
[ ] HTTPS enabled.
[ ] CSP configured.
[ ] Security headers.
[ ] Secret manager.
[ ] Dependency scan.
[ ] Container scan.
[ ] OWASP review.
[ ] Audit logging.

Examples¶

References¶

https://owasp.org/
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
https://owasp.org/API-Security/
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/
https://csrc.nist.gov/
https://www.cisecurity.org/