Developing software to secure coding rules is a good idea and is increasingly a requirement. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, Section 933, "Improvements in Assurance of Computer Software Procured by the Department of Defense," requires evidence that government software development and maintenance organizations and contractors are conforming, in computer software coding, to approved secure coding standards of the Department of Defense (DoD) during software development, upgrade, and maintenance activities, including through the use of inspection and appraisals.
DoD acquisition programs are specifying The Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), Version 2, Release 1 [DISA 2008] in requests for proposal (RFPs). Section 2.1.5, "Coding Standards," requires that "the Program Manager will ensure the development team follows a set of coding standards."
The proper application of this standard would enable a system to comply with the following requirements from the Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide, Version 2, Release 1 [DISA 2008]:
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