Get fully automated SDLC audits with no gaps or findings.
Your software delivery audit takes forever, costs a fortune, and you still get findings. With Kosli you can replace manual evidence chasing with a central system of record that automatically captures and stores all your audit data.
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Your SDLC audits are getting longer and more expensive
The Three Stage Audit Cost Cascade
High volumes of software changes compound over time to make software delivery audits an increasing burden on businesses, and on CIOs in particular.
Stage 1: Daily Operations
Hundreds of thousands of changes are made to production annually and each change requires multiple pieces of evidence for approval. Some of it is never supplied, some of it goes missing, and the gaps pile up over time.
Stage 2: Audit Preparation
Engineering teams look back 6-12 months to gather audit evidence. They try to reconstruct history from scattered systems. It takes weeks, runs up significant costs, and distracts from productive work.
Stage 3: Findings & Remediation
Despite the best efforts of your engineering teams, inevitably there are gaps. Auditors find them, which puts the onus on you to remediate quickly. Your teams go back to fill the holes. More time. More cost. More distraction.
This cycle is unbreakable when manual processes try to keep pace with modern software delivery, and as your teams ship more and more software it’s a problem that will only get worse.
The Impact on CIOs
When the regulators send their audit findings, CIOs face personal liability and pressure to respond quickly. Projects have to be spun up quickly, and the anxiety to get through the remediation phase spreads from the executive leadership down to individual developers.
Filling gaps with tactical fixes solves the immediate problems, but it perpetuates the cycle of costly, reactive audits - you know you’ll be here again in 6-12 months time.
For CIOs, audits become painful at stage 3 when the auditor’s findings arrive. But the root cause of the audit problem is in the accumulation of missing evidence gaps that happened during stage 1, and the failure to fill those gaps in stage 2.
To break this cycle you have to rethink your entire approach to evidencing. If you can successfully gather all of the evidence in stage 1, stage 2 is a breeze and stage 3 never happens. That means a huge saving in time and money, and an even bigger reduction in stress.
Taking a Proactive Approach
Instead of compiling evidence in an ad hoc and unstructured way, what if you just record everything that happens in a central system of record? By capturing the facts automatically at every step of software delivery, you can answer any conceivable auditor question without reconstruction.
Leading software organizations have already stopped playing defense on audits. Instead of anticipating auditor questions, they’re capturing everything in real time, creating an immutable record of every change, approval, and control as it happens.
This shifts the approach from reactive reconstruction to always-on audit readiness. No time wasted on gathering evidence. No gaps to fill. No findings to remediate.
