Functional safety plays an important role in future automobile development, especially for electrified vehicles. Torque security is the most important function in the context of automotive functional safety. Unintended torque increase/decrease due to hardware malfunction of the Vehicle Control Unit (VCU) is one of the major torque security problems that need to be addressed by appropriate software design. In order to ensure that the vehicle maintains in safe and reliable condition when running into an unintended torque increase, we firstly investigate elements of danger and risk through the Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) approach, and then works out a strategy for torque security control in this paper. Using Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow toolset, requested torque calculation model is designed based on accelerator pedal position, vehicle velocity and gear position, while the torque monitoring model is designed based on speed, current and voltage of traction motor. By comparing the requested torque and the monitoring torque, the model gives a result whether the request torque exceeds the safety threshold. It also gives a reaction time limit when the requested torque is unsecure. The simulation results show that the developed torque-security control software fulfills the reaction time limit to meet the functional safety requirement of torque control.