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Background
Registry

Platforms

The governed systems that define your compliance scope — business purpose, trust boundaries, and data flow documented on every platform, with the ownership to back it up.
The platform boundary: four environments in scope with their asset and vendor counts, and three environments recorded out of scope below it. IN SCOPEProductionCustomer-facing systems and the data they hold12 ASSETS4 VENDORSPipelineHow code is built, tested, and released5 ASSETS2 VENDORSDevelopmentStaging and test systems, no customer data4 ASSETS1 VENDOROperationsInternal tooling that supports the controls6 ASSETS5 VENDORSOUT OF SCOPESandbox4 ASSETS · 2 VENDORSLegacy apps3 ASSETS · 1 VENDORPublic2 ASSETS
System Boundaries

From spreadsheet to system of record

Describe each system the way it runs in production, with someone accountable for keeping that description true, so the record never depends on what somebody remembered to write down.
One record for the whole system description

Write your system description once, not from scratch every audit cycle. Purpose, scope, and boundaries live on the platform record, with architecture and data flow diagrams attached — the same picture your SOC 2 report and ISO 27001:2022 system description ask for.

  • Purpose, scope, and trust boundaries captured on the record itself
  • Architecture and data flow diagrams attached where the auditor looks
Ownership you never have to chase down

When an auditor or an incident responder asks who owns a system, the record already answers. Accountability lives on the platform itself rather than in someone's memory, so it survives reorgs, departures, and the audit sample.

  • Owners recorded where auditors and responders look first
  • Assign owners to users, groups, or people without an Openlane account
Scope you can defend, status that stays honest

Defend your scope with the reasoning already written down, not reconstructed under questioning. Record what's in scope and what you deliberately excluded, and why; decommission a system instead of deleting it, so its evidence and links survive for past audit periods.

  • Inclusions and exclusions carry their rationale, not just a checkbox
  • Decommissioned systems keep their evidence and relationships for past periods

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Part of Registry

The system description, already written

Every platform described the way your SOC 2 or ISO 27001 system description expects, with an owner standing behind the record, so the audit starts from a picture that is already current.
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