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Draft: Add AppSec activities to the GL Continuous Security Framework

Philippe Lafoucrière requested to merge gl-csf-appsec into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR brings AppSec activities and requirement to the Security Framework page.
It's meant to be merged into !105792 (merged), so please check out the content of the main MR first, then add the AppSec content in this one to keep the discussion scoped.

Remember that everything should be automated as much as possible to keep the workflow lean.

Potential Activities

Activity When Notes
Assigning a Stable Counterpart Creating a new product category / group Not sure if there's a process for this in the handbook yet?
AppSec Review "The team owning the feature should proactively involve the Stable Counterpart in Epics, Issues, and/or MRs which might require a review or their attention. This is primarily the responsibility of the team's Engineering Manager(s) and the Engineer(s) working on the Issue / MR. Ideal trigger points (in order of preference) are when the Epic/Issue/MR is created/updated, when an engineering proposal is updated, or when an engineer is working on the MR."

Those are the two main entry points really. Anything else - e.g. threat modelling, can be decided on a case by case basis. Deciding what scanners to enable could also be done at this point, and/or be mandated by a Compliance Policy.

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Edited by Nick Malcolm

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