I don’t know if ASCE or NSPE are governing bodies as much they are societies. I think the Core of Engineers has way more power there from my experience in Civil

I don’t know if ASCE or NSPE are governing bodies as much they are societies. I think the Core of Engineers has way more power there from my experience in Civil. For Software that would be Homeland, FBI, and even the FAA for governing bodies specifically. But software doesn’t have ethically governing bodies because we have enough laws to cover a lot of mandatory auditing. For example: HIPAA - Medical Data Protection & Compliance Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act - Financial Data Protection & Compliance FISMA - Federal Data Compliance GDPR - PII Data Compliance PCI DSS - Credit Card Data Compliance Specific example of use: Code that is deployed that involves PCI data being handled requires a code review. There are heavy penalties for lost of these things, and I promise there are many companies focusing on this. But it could be very much improved with a proper governing body.