Compliance Assessment System for Software Lifecycle
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ensuring compliance of software applications across multiple regions and industries is a complex, resource-intensive task due to changing legal and regulatory requirements, customer contracts, and varying deployment landscapes, especially during the software application lifecycle.
Innovation Solution
A compliance assessment system that evaluates software applications' compliance at various lifecycle stages, considering dependencies and deployments, using a policy engine with extension modules to assess compliance with regulations and customer demands, and provides simulation features to predict the impact of changes on compliance status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual compliance assessment methods are used across multiple regions and industries, then compliance coverage can be achieved, but resource consumption and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The compliance assessment system is segmented into multiple independent components: a policy engine for rule evaluation, extension modules for different regions and industries, a simulation module for change impact analysis, and a data model layer. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific compliance requirements independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive compliance coverage across multiple jurisdictions and sectors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a simulation module as an intermediary between compliance policy changes and actual deployment. This intermediary allows stakeholders to predict the impact of regulatory changes or contract modifications before implementing them, reducing the complexity of managing compliance across multiple regions by providing a virtual testing environment that mediates between policy requirements and system configuration.
2Reliability
If comprehensive compliance policies are implemented across all regions and industries, then compliance assurance is improved, but resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The compliance assessment system is designed as a universal platform that can assess compliance across multiple regions and industries simultaneously. The policy engine and extension modules are configured to handle diverse compliance requirements through a single unified system, eliminating the need for separate manual assessment processes for each region or industry, thereby reducing overall resource requirements while maintaining comprehensive compliance assurance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automated self-assessment of compliance status through its policy engine and extension modules. Organizations can independently evaluate their compliance posture against applicable regulations and customer contracts without requiring external consultants or manual audits, significantly reducing the resource requirements for maintaining compliance assurance across multiple jurisdictions.
3Reliability
If compliance assessment is performed at all lifecycle stages, then continuous compliance is achieved, but time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The compliance assessment system performs preliminary compliance checks at earlier lifecycle stages such as design and development. By assessing compliance requirements before deployment and operation, the system prevents compliance issues from arising in the first place, reducing the total time required for compliance management compared to reactive assessment methods that address issues after they occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops that automatically monitor compliance status across all lifecycle stages. The policy engine continuously evaluates compliance policies against system configuration and operational data, providing real-time feedback on compliance posture. This automated feedback mechanism reduces the time required for compliance assessment compared to periodic manual reviews, as compliance is continuously verified without requiring dedicated assessment time at each stage.
4Measurement precision
If simulation of compliance changes is enabled, then impact prediction is improved, but computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The simulation module implements partial simulation by focusing computational resources on assessing only the specific compliance policies and rules that are affected by proposed changes. Rather than re-simulating the entire compliance framework, the system identifies and evaluates only the relevant subset of policies that will be impacted by regulatory changes or contract modifications, thereby maintaining high impact prediction accuracy while reducing computational resource requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods include reception of a first request to check code associated with a first service for compliance with one or more criteria, determination of a plurality of code components associated with the first service, execution of a code check of each of the plurality of code components, generation of a first service compliance statement associated with the first service based on results of the executed code checks, determination of a definition of the first product from a product repository, the definition listing a plurality of services on which the product depends, the plurality of services including the first service, identification of a compliance statement associated with each of the plurality services, and determination of a product compliance statement based on each of the identified compliance statements.