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As cyber security continues to make be headline news it is timely that on 7 May 2025 the UK government published a new voluntary Software Security Code of Practice: Software Security Code of Practice \u2013 GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n

This Code is designed to be complementary to relevant international approaches and existing standards and where possible reflects internationally recognized best practice including as outlined in the US Secure Software Development Framework (Secure Software Development Framework | CSRC<\/a>) and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Updates, Compliance, Training<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This Code consists of 14 principles split across 4 themes (secure design and development; build environment security; secure deployment and maintenance; and communication with customers) that software vendors are expected (but to stress the voluntary nature of this code, are not legally obliged) to implement to establish a consistent baseline of software security and resilience across the market \u2013 these principles are stated to be relevant to any type of software supplied to business customers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSoftware Vendors\u201d are defined under this Code as organisations that develop and sell software or software services; \u201cSoftware\u201d is code, programmes and applications that run on devices including on hardware devices and via cloud\/SaaS.<\/p>\n

A self-assessment form is also made available \u00a0(Software-Security-Code-of-Practice-Self-Assessment-Template.docx<\/a>) which software vendors can use to assess and evidence compliance with this Code.<\/p>\n

This Code follows on from the Cyber Governance Code of Practice and supporting tool kit published on 8 April 2025 (Cyber Governance Code of Practice \u2013 GOV.UK<\/a>) to support boards and directors of medium and large organizations to govern cyber security risks. The emphasis of this Code is to support boards and directors to effectively govern and monitor cyber security within their business, but it is not intended for use by those people in a business whose role is the day-to-day management of cyber security.<\/p>\n

As cyber security continues to be a high-profile and business critical issue for many businesses it is likely that in the coming months we may start to see compliance with these voluntary codes becoming contractual obligations imposed on suppliers.<\/p>\n

For further details please contact Carlon Daniel<\/a>, Simon Jones<\/a>, David Naylor<\/a>, Andrew Wilkinson<\/a> or Paul Jinks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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