A standardized application security baseline for vendor selection simplifies the sourcing team's job and provides a clear set of requirements for enterprise-ready products and services. MVSP is designed to be brief, concise, and easy to understand so that it can be included in RFP documents without causing delays to the sales cycle.
Smaller companies that are not yet mature enough to invest in large compliance efforts such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS can use MVSP as a baseline to measure the security posture of their MVP and create a roadmap for continuous improvement. MVPs often lack essential security controls, however to attract enterprise customers, a clear security roadmap must be a priority.
Security teams often have a great number of requirements pertinent to providing digital services. Prioritizing “security as a feature” can be challenging for software teams. MVSP provides a simple set of minimum controls that are both easy for product teams to understand and integrate and easy to verify by the security and compliance team.
To ensure the security posture of third-party suppliers, large companies can incorporate MVSP into their standard contractual controls. By ensuring that third-parties acknowledge and respond to the MVSP controls at the initial RFP stage, agreeing to contractual controls based on MVSP can be further expedited.