The Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle Integrated into several stages of the product lifecycle—from design and development to quality assurance, testing, and deployment— the Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle (SPLC) is the foundation of all security at Adobe. A rigorous set of several hundred specific security activities spanning software development practices, processes, and tools, the Adobe SPLC defines clear, repeatable processes to help our development teams build security into our products and services and continuously evolves to incorporate the latest industry best practices. Training & Certification > C O M Abuse, Fraud & T M Requirements N U E N Incident Responses M I & Planning E TY G A EN G Operations NE AG Design YTI EG & Monitoring NU EM MMOC TN > Deployment Staging Development & Stabilization & Testing Figure 5: The Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle Adobe maintains a published Secure Product Lifecycle Standard that is available for review upon request. More information about the components of the Adobe SPLC can be found in the Adobe Application Security Overview. 11