A.8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments | ISO 27001 Control

Purpose

To reduce the risks of unauthorized access or changes to the production environment.

Implementation Guidance

Implement separate environments for development, testing, and production

Control promotion of code between environments

Use non-production data in test environments

Restrict access to production environments

Document environment separation architecture

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