Strengthening SDLC Integrity, Step by Step

In our discussions with customers, we identified a critical challenge in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): package signing often occurs after the package build, altering the package’s SHA in the middle of the process. While organizations aim to ensure that artifacts pushed to production have a fully signed and verifiable provenance from development to deployment, this intermediate modification disrupts the integrity of the build step and beyond. Customers recognize the value of immutable release bundles and a robust provenance posture. However, transitioning away from a process that modifies artifacts mid-SDLC for signing to an immutable workflow remains challenging. This talk will explore how organizations can adopt a step-by-step approach to ensure consistency and predictability across SDLC maturity stages, while enabling the addition of trusted and signed evidence at every stage; a way to enable security, traceability, and compliance without compromising integrity.