Governance That Ships: Embedding Policy as Code Into Your System of Record

Manual compliance processes — spreadsheets, screenshots, attestations — create an 'Audit Tax' that doesn't scale with modern AI-accelerated development. Policy as Code (PaC) using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego translates governance rules into machine-readable, automatically enforced logic. However, homegrown OPA scripts in CI pipelines have critical flaws: point-in-time validation, visibility gaps when pipelines are bypassed, fragmented metadata, and high operational burden. JFrog AppTrust addresses this by embedding native PaC enforcement directly into the artifact repository (JFrog Artifactory), offering a 'Bring Your Own Policy' model that accepts existing OPA/Rego rules. This approach cryptographically binds compliance evidence to binaries, centralizes attestations, and provides machine-speed proof required by regulations like the EU Cyber Resilience Act and NIST SSDF.