You have requirements in Jira or DOORS, code in Git, tests in TestRail, risk assessments in Excel, documentation in Confluence, and maybe even SBOM generation through specialized tools. Each tool is excellent at its specific job. Your team is competent. Your processes are solid. But when an auditor asks to see the complete chain of evidence for a single CVE, from discovery through risk assessment to fix to verification to deployment, you need 2-3 hours to manually compile information from five disconnected systems. That’s not CRA compliant. And it’s not a security problem. It’s a tool integration problem.
You have requirements in Jira or DOORS, code in Git, tests in TestRail, risk assessments in Excel, documentation in Confluence, and maybe even SBOM generation through specialized tools. Each tool is excellent at its specific job. Your team is competent. Your processes are solid. But when an auditor asks to see the complete chain of evidence for a single CVE, from discovery through risk assessment to fix to verification to deployment, you need 2-3 hours to manually compile information from five disconnected systems. That’s not CRA compliant. And it’s not a security problem. It’s a tool integration problem.
