Building an audit-ready evidence trail for software compliance
The teams that sail through audits aren't the ones with the thickest binder — they're the ones who can produce a current, coherent trail on demand. Compliance is less a document and more a habit of leaving evidence behind you as you work.
What a good trail contains
- SBOMs for each release — what you shipped, when.
- Scan results and their outcomes — what you found and what you did about it (including VEX "not affected" decisions).
- Update records — proof you distributed fixes within your support commitment.
- Readiness assessments against the requirements, with gaps and how they were closed.
Make it tamper-evident
An evidence log you could quietly rewrite isn't evidence. Integrity — being able to show the record wasn't altered after the fact — is what turns your trail à partir de a claim into proof.
The goal isn't to survive one audit. It's to always be one query away à partir de proving how you keep your product safe.
Maintenez la continuité
Evidence generated once a year decays. Wire it into your release process so the trail grows on its own, and the audit becomes a report you run rather than a project you dread.
A sealed, continuous Evidence Log is core to how Proofwright works.