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Introducing the SDLC System of Record (SoR): Unified, Audit-Ready Supply Chain Compliance

Itay Nussbaum
Product Manager
Published March 10 2026 · 3 min. read

Between rising supply-chainattacks, AI-generated code, new compliance mandates, and complex deployment architectures, organizations struggle to answer even the most basic questions about how software is built — and whether it’s built securely.

Today, we’re excited to introduce a foundational capability for SDLC governance and software supply chain security: Apiiro’s SDLC System of Record (SoR).

The SoR provides a single source of truth across pull requests, branches, pipelines, build jobs and artifacts — consolidating evidence, control adherence, violations, and audit-ready reporting into one unified view of your software development lifecycle.

Why an SDLC System of Record Matters

Security and development teams at every organization want to know:

  • Who approved a change?
  • Was the build properly scanned?
  • Did the artifact originate from a trusted pipeline?
  • Were High/Critical issues bypassed into production?
  • Do we meet ISO 27001, SOC2, NIST SSDF, and SLSA requirements?

Until now, these answers lived across dozens of disconnected systems — code hosts, CI/CD, scanners, deployment tools, spreadsheets, and audit evidence trackers.

SoR eliminates that fragmentation. By consolidating all SDLC entities into one consistent, queryable model, teams get:

  • End-to-end traceability
  • Real-time control verification
  • Automated evidence collection
  • Cross-framework compliance mapping
  • Visibility into violations and gaps
  • A single, authoritative snapshot for audits and reviews, enabling easy adherence to regulatory and government mandates
  • Security teams get clear and concise answers to high-priority queries – reducing developer friction
  • Visibility, integrity, and posture across the SDLC

What’s Inside the SoR

Built on the back of the Apiiro Data Fabric (Deep Code Analysis, Software Graph and Risk Graph), the SoR consolidates and illuminates five core SDLC entities where trust is established or broken:

1. Pull Requests

Consolidate and get visibility into controls, such as:

  • PR reviewed by at least one non-author
  • No High/Critical risks merged into main
  • PR originates from a feature branch
  • PRs scanned by Apiiro
  • Workflow gating enforced

Mapped to: ISO 27001, SOC2, NIST 800-53, NIST SSDF, CIS Controls

2. Branches

Consolidate and get visibility intoInstitute controls, such as:

  • Branch monitored in Apiiro
  • Review required before merge
  • Force-push protection
  • Deletion protection
  • No inactive admins/writers

3. Pipelines

Consolidate and get visibility intoInstitute controls, such as:

  • No misconfigurations
  • Dependency and configuration scans executed
  • No High/Critical risks in pipeline stages

4. Build Jobs

Consolidate and get visibility intoInstitute controls, such as:

  • Scanned during execution
  • Build blocked from artifact creation when critical issues exist
  • No unresolved recommended actions

5. Artifacts

*Consolidate and get visibility intoInstitute controls, such as:

  • Integrity & provenance
  • SLSA level
  • Deployment breadth
  • Ownership & authorship lineage

*Coming soon.

Cross-Framework Compliance: Out-of-the-Box Mapping

Every control in the SoR is mapped to industry frameworks, including ISO 27001, SOC2 CC7/CC8, NIST 800-53, NIST SSDF, CIS v8, and SLSA (Levels 1–3).

This mapping enables:

  • Automatic control coverage reports
  • Instant audit evidence demonstrating governance of consumption
  • Simplified compliance questionnaires, enabling confidence in license compliance
  • Continuous monitoring of violations and drift

No more spreadsheets, screenshots, or manual evidence gathering.

Introducing SoR Reporting

The SoR includes a dedicated reporting experience, purpose-built for engineering, AppSec, and compliance teams.

Per-Entity Control Tabs

Each SDLC entity gets its own dashboard, including:

  • Control definition
  • % coverage
  • % compliant
  • Violations with evidence
  • Compliance evidence
  • Trend over time
  • Deep links to Apiiro items

SoR Overview

The SoR report provides a unified cross-entity snapshot for the entire SDLC, with filters for:

  • PRs
  • Branches
  • Repositories
  • Pipelines
  • Build Job IDs
  • Artifacts

This facilitates real, policy-driven governance across the SDLC – doing away with the need to manually pivot between siloed system logs.

Unlocking New Cross-Entity Queries & Insights

The SoR provides clear answers to requests security teams most need answered, in order to secure the software supply chain – such as::

  • “Show all PRs where the author was also the only approver.”
  • “Show risky PRs associated with deployed artifacts.”
  • “List build jobs that produced artifacts deployed to production.”
  • “Find deployment locations without an active DeployJob in the last 90 days.”
  • “Highlight SoD violations over time per team/app.”

These insights are powered by the SoR data model, the Apiiro Software Graph and Risk Graph, and our policy engine — and they unlock true end-to-end software supply chain intelligence..

What’s Coming Next

Next up, we’re engaging with design partners to expand the SoR with:

  • AI-related SDLC controls (AI-generated code, model provenance)
  • Full Artifact & DeployJob models
  • Blast radius insights (artifact risk × deployment breadth)

Explosive codebase growth (fueled by AI-generated code) has catalyzed the need not only for AI-focused policy-driven governance, but also for deep, easily-visualized insights into deployment pipelines, blast radius, and the ability to prevent risk across multiple distinct entities in software environments.

Transparent, Queryable Software Supply Chain Security

The SDLC System of Record is Apiiro’s latest foundational innovation for engineering, security, and compliance teams. It brings clarity to a world of disconnected tools and processes, and raises the bar for how organizations secure the code that powers their business.

This is the beginning of a new, unified approach to software supply-chain governance.
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