International Business Machines Corporation

Philippe Mulet

Anca Sailer

Arun Kumar

Malgorzata Steinder

Simon Kurt Johnston

Ritchard Leonard Schacher

James R Doran

Christopher John Butler

Christopher Lawrence Brealey

Christopher N Taylor

David Paul Charboneau

Thomas C Schmidt

Joel Cayne

A compliance discovery and integration process is implemented in association with a cloud-based security and compliance platform and associated CI/CD framework. The process assumes an existing DevOps-based deployment of a product, such as an enterprise application that executes in a runtime production environment. The technique of this disclosure addresses the problem of misalignment between a compliance policy and the product's post-deployment regulation posture by providing tools and methods that enable pro-active augmentation of governance and compliance policy during the pre-deployment phase and with respect to a next deployment of the product (e.g., a next or updated version). Thus, when the product is later deployed in its next deployment, its regulation posture (post-deployment) is already consistent with the compliance policy.

Discovering and using application deployment dependencies to augment governance and compliance policy

Examining source code repositories for indications of orthogonal technologies in actual use or of potential usefulness in the development and continuous delivery of the contents of the repositories.

System for modeling toolchains-based source repository analysis

Provided are techniques for receiving a request to create a current baseline with a baseline identifier and selecting data elements that are to be included in the current baseline. For each of the data elements, for a version of the data element to be included in the current baseline, a reference to the version of the data element is added to the current baseline and a baseline index element for the version of the data element is maintained by one of creating a new baseline index element or updating an existing baseline index element.

Baselines over indexed, versioned data

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Saint-Nazaire, France

Philippe Mulet