Developer SDLC compliance checklist

Compliance can often feel like a complex and overwhelming burden, disconnected from the actual work of building software. 

This quick guide cuts through the noise to distill what really matters for developers, reframing compliance not as a final audit, but as an integrated part of your daily work and software development lifecycle (SDLC).

The checklist also highlights the modern compliance challenge posed by AI-generated code, which dramatically increases the volume of code to review, adds complexity, and can easily inject security vulnerabilities like hard-coded secrets. Tools like SonarQube support SDLC compliance by automating key processes.