Compliance – Optimizing regulation-readiness for software teams

From compliance after the fact to compliance by design

Software teams increasingly face legislation, standards, and compliance requirements. In regulated domains especially, compliance shapes how you develop, test, document, and maintain your software. But how do you keep compliance from landing on the table at the very end of the development process? And are compliance requirements far removed from the world of best practices, or are they two routes to the same destination?

Compliance is often seen as an organizational obligation that mainly produces paperwork. In practice, a solid compliance approach helps you recognize risks earlier, improve your processes, and build better software.

In this training, you'll learn how to operate effectively as a software team within a regulated domain. You'll gain an overview of relevant regulation such as ISO 27001, the Cyber Resilience Act, DORA, MDR, NIS2, NIST, and GDPR. On request, you can even bring in your own standards to discuss during the training. You'll then translate that knowledge into everyday practice: from risk management and process design to concrete product requirements.

The training is developed and delivered by Betabit specialists with experience in building and maintaining business-critical software in environments where quality, security, and compliance come together, such as finance, medical software and AI applications.

What you’ll learn

During this training, you'll discover how to apply compliance in practice within software development:

• Working in a regulated domain
  • Everyone works in a regulated domain
  • What regulation means for software teams
  • The impact on development, testing, and delivery
  • From obligation to practical engineering choice
• Collaborating with compliance
  • Working effectively with compliance officers and compliance teams
  • Roles, responsibilities, and expectations
  • Involving compliance early in software development
• Frameworks, standards, regulation, and legislation
  • The differences and the connections between frameworks, standards, and regulation
  • An overview of relevant frameworks
  • From abstract regulation to concrete software practice
• Relevant compliance
  • ISO 27001, NIS2, NIST, and GDPR
  • Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
  • Domain-specific regulation: Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and Medical Device Regulation (MDR)
  • Your choice of relevant standards or norms
• Risk and risk management
  • Identifying and assessing risks
  • Translating risks into concrete measures
  • Risk-driven working within software teams
• Tools that can help
  • Tools for insight, registration, and control
  • Supporting compliance in development and QA processes
  • Automating compliance wherever possible
• Process requirements and process improvements
  • Which processes need demonstrable control?
  • Integrating compliance into existing development processes
  • Improving without unnecessary bureaucracy
• Software product requirements and product opportunities
  • Translating regulation into concrete software requirements
  • Security, privacy, and compliance by design
  • Using compliance as a product opportunity

Compliance as an integral part of your work

After this training, you'll know how to handle regulation and compliance effectively as a software team. You'll understand the key frameworks, collaborate better with compliance specialists, and know how to translate regulation into risks, processes, and concrete product requirements. That makes compliance an integral part of building reliable software. A welcome bonus: the quality of your software and your processes rises along with it.