ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

Verifying pedigree and provenance focuses on confirming both the origin and the integrity of software before it is trusted inside an organization's environment. Requiring the vendor to supply a signed software bill of materials (SBOM) and cryptographically signing each container image allows your team to validate hashes and signatures during the pipeline's pull phase. This ensures the image truly comes from the expected source and has not been altered in transit or in the vendor's repository. Post-deployment vulnerability scans, regional placement, or simple network allow lists may mitigate other risks (exposure, latency, or confidentiality), but they do not positively establish the chain of custody or authenticity of the software itself, which is the core objective when verifying pedigree and provenance prior to interconnection.