Trust Certification Packaging
Portable, signed certification bundles that auditors, customers, and regulators can verify independently — without requiring access to your live systems or custom tooling.
What gets bundled
Certification Bundles
A bundle is the audit-ready envelope for a workload at a specific version. It contains the artifacts needed to independently verify provenance, integrity, and compliance posture.
- SBOMs — component inventory in CycloneDX or SPDX
- Scan reports — SAST, DAST, dependency, license
- Signed artifacts — source, binaries, containers
- Attestations — provenance, build environment, signer identity
- Policy snapshots — which policies were in force at certification time
Audit Alignment
Bundles are structured to map cleanly into the control frameworks most regulated enterprises operate under. An auditor reviewing a bundle should be able to answer control-specific questions without needing to reconstruct evidence from raw logs.
Chain of Trust
Every artifact in a bundle is linked to the artifact it depends on: source to binary, binary to container, container to deployment attestation. The chain can be walked end-to-end by a verifier that has no access to the originating systems.
Framework alignment
Certification bundles are structured to support audits against common frameworks. Field mapping varies per deployment — the bundles are not a substitute for formal certification, but they reduce the audit cost of producing evidence against each framework.
| Framework | What Bundles Help With |
|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Change management, access control, monitoring, vulnerability management evidence |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Asset inventory, secure development, cryptographic controls, supplier relationships |
| FedRAMP | Configuration management, system integrity, supply chain risk, audit and accountability |
| HIPAA | Access logs, integrity controls, transmission security evidence for PHI workloads |
| PCI-DSS | Secure software development, change control, audit trails for cardholder data environments |
| NIST 800-53 | Configuration management, audit and accountability, system integrity, supply chain protection |
Bundle schema
Each bundle contains the following artifact types. Format choices match standard industry practice so existing toolchains can consume them:
| Artifact Type | Format | Purpose | Consumers |
|---|---|---|---|
| SBOM | CycloneDX, SPDX | Component inventory, license, supply chain transparency | Auditors, customers, scanners |
| Scan Reports | PDF, JSON (SARIF) | SAST / DAST / dependency / license findings | Security reviewers, procurement |
| Signed Artifacts | Sigstore, cosign | Provenance, integrity, signer identity | Deploy pipelines, verifiers |
| Compliance Bundles | ZIP, OCI | Packaged audit envelope for a specific version | Auditors, regulators, customers |
How bundles are used
Vendor Security Questionnaires
Instead of filling out bespoke questionnaires for each enterprise customer, deliver a current bundle. Most questions become "see artifact X in the bundle." This compresses procurement-security review cycles significantly.
Continuous Compliance
Bundles regenerate per release. A governance team can sample bundles over time to verify that controls stay in place across versions — not just at the point-in-time of the original certification.
Incident Response
In an incident, having the bundle for the affected version answers "what was running, what was in it, how was it built, what policies applied, who signed it" — all from artifacts that exist before the incident, not reconstructed during it.
Certification bundles turn audit evidence into a distributable artifact. Teams that ship to enterprise and regulated customers get a standardized way to answer governance questions — and auditors get portable evidence they can verify without requiring live access.