What security questions belong in a regular sprint retrospective?
Do not wait for an incident to talk security in retros. Six rotating questions, a simple format and how to turn answers into changes the team keeps.
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Do not wait for an incident to talk security in retros. Six rotating questions, a simple format and how to turn answers into changes the team keeps.
Six short questions that make authors think about secrets, dependencies, permissions and logging before review. A copyable template that stays useful.
Ask what company data and accounts they hold, what only they know, and what must be returned. A short script beats improvising, and fits NIST PS-4.
Quarter three is about proof: a first incident exercise, vendor and contract basics, and a customer facing security summary that matches what you do.
Quarter two moves from inventory to routine: dependency scanning in CI, a pull request gate in report mode, a fix queue with owners, and a weekly review.
Quarter four closes the year: review what ran, retire what did not work, set up continuous checks, and write a year two plan from evidence, not a template.
In the first quarter, a security program at a 20 to 200 engineer company should deliver a named owner, an asset and repo inventory, and access basics.
Advisories, bulletins, notices, release notes and CVE records overlap but are not the same. Plain definitions and what to do with each type of document.
A 15 minute security kickoff names the data, the boundaries, the owners and the checks before the first sprint. Here is the agenda and the notes to keep.
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