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Increasingly, standards organizations are working on ways to improve software security. Accomplishing change through standards organizations can be harder than accomplishing change at any other organizational level, but when successful, can have a broader impact across the industry. The international standards bodies – International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) – are working on a number of projects that affect software security...

This article is a useful starting point for information regarding various international standards related to the security implications of programming languages and programming practices.