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SDL Helps Address Compliance Requirements

The software that your organization develops might need to comply with a variety of complex, ever-changing regulations. Implementing the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) can help. Incorporating SDL into your application development process helps your organization meet many of the most current compliance requirements more efficiently. At the same time, SDL helps improve your return on investment (ROI) by guiding you to make smart choices early in the design process, minimizing expensive inefficiencies.

Benefits

Go beyond today’s compliance requirements, enabling your organization to take a proactive, forward-thinking approach.
Eliminate redundancies and coordinate processes, thereby streamlining the efficiency of application development.
Improve productivity while helping ensure compliance.
Improve application security with a holistic, step-by-step approach.
Improve productivity while helping ensure compliance.

SDL Helps Address Compliance Requirements

Compliance Resources

	Compliance Benefits of Better Application Security Insight into the overlap between compliance and software security.
	Aligning Microsoft SDL with PCI DSS/PCI PA-DSS Compliance Activity SDL covers some requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS).
	Aligning Microsoft SDL with the HIPAA Security Rule How SDL and the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) intersect.
	The National and Economic Benefits of Security Development Processes See how critical infrastructure providers and vendors use SDL to improve application security.
	BITS Software Assurance Framework for Financial Services The framework provides a reference tool, proven software assurance controls, and a common practice to help improve software security.
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Case Studies

	Government of India The government of India embraces the principles of secure software development, many of which are defined by the SDL.
	MidAmerican Energy An inside look at MidAmerican Energy's quest to improve the security of its software by transforming its processes and culture.
	Itron, Inc. Itron adopts the SDL to meet National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended security guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security.
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