How regulated industries use ForgeHelm
Six situations, all of them real: source code that cannot leave the building, compliance that cannot wait until year-end, or a system nobody on the team knows any more.
Financial Services
Audit trails, supply chain security, regulatory compliance
Common Challenges
- Source code must not leave the firewall — even for security scanning
- PCI-DSS requires change control records for every change to system components; SOX IT general controls also require traceable changes
- DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) requires ICT supply chain risk documentation to be in place
- Regulated in multiple jurisdictions at once, with overlapping control requirements
How ForgeHelm Helps
- Analysis engine (Agent) on-premises: source code doesn't leave your network
- Every scan, policy change, and report export goes into a hash-chained audit log
- SBOM supply chain inventory supporting DORA's requirements to inventory ICT assets and third-party dependencies
- Coverage matrix shows which controls overlap across frameworks — fix once, get credit everywhere
Relevant frameworks (all built in): PCI-DSSSOXDORABasel IIIISO 27001
Government & Public Sector
On-premises or isolated deployment, acceptance evidence, Taiwan regulations
Common Challenges
- Isolated networks — no outbound connections allowed
- Accepting outsourced systems requires source code inspection evidence
- When a specification says "source code testing", you need to know whether what we produce actually matches it
- Multiple agencies share one platform, and permissions must be strictly separated
How ForgeHelm Helps
- Air-gapped deployment — updates arrive on physical media
- Traditional Chinese compliance reports (PDF and Word) to attach to the acceptance record for an outsourced system, including the audit trail of scans and exports
- The 31 built-in frameworks include ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, OWASP Top 10 and Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act — but not the Cyber Security Management Act itself, CNS 27001 or the Government Configuration Baseline (GCB). Send us the clauses and we answer point by point
- Each agency sees only its own code and reports; separation is enforced at the API layer
Relevant frameworks (all built in): ISO 27001NIST CSFCIS ControlsOWASP Top 10TW-PDPA
Healthcare
Patient data protection, HIPAA compliance, third-party audits
Common Challenges
- Patient data sits right next to the code — even descriptive details like file names and paths can be sensitive
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) require controls you can prove
- External auditors need evidence, but you can't give them system accounts
- Mergers and acquisitions call for a fast read on the other side's legacy systems
How ForgeHelm Helps
- Only file names, line numbers, and summary counts leave the hospital; code content, paths, and personal data are masked before they go out
- HIPAA technical safeguards mapping report, usable as BAA evidence
- Evidence exports to PDF and CSV, ready to hand to auditors
- Legacy system health and risk assessment, done in one pass for M&A due diligence
Relevant frameworks (all built in): HIPAAGDPRISO 27001SOC 2
High-Tech Manufacturing
IP protection, supply chain security, isolated R&D networks
Common Challenges
- Proprietary firmware and chip design code can't touch the cloud
- Global supply chains demand verified software components
- R&D networks are air-gapped to begin with
- Aging production control systems need a new tech stack, but the line can't stop
How ForgeHelm Helps
- Air-gapped Agent inside the R&D network — zero outbound connections
- CycloneDX SBOM covering supply chain component verification and license tracking in one pass
- Each plant deploys and scans on its own, with dashboards viewed in one central place
- Tech Stack Migration module turns legacy replacement into a step-by-step plan
Relevant frameworks (all built in): ISO 27001CMMC 2.0SLSACIS Controls
Taking over an undocumented legacy system
Built in-house, outsourced, or handed over by a client — all of them count
Common Challenges
- The system was written by your own team, the author has left, and there is no documentation and nobody to ask
- For an outsourced or client-supplied system, you have to answer "can it be changed, how long will it take" before quoting, with only manual code reading to go on
- You want to replace an old framework, but nobody can say what it will touch or how risky it is
- Handover and acceptance need something in writing; anecdotal experience doesn't get signed off
How ForgeHelm Helps
- One scan pins findings to file and line against all 31 frameworks — taking stock and estimating effort on evidence instead of impressions
- The SBOM lists which packages the system uses, under which licences, with which known vulnerabilities — see the risk before you take it on
- 20 architecture diagrams generated straight from the code: what calls what, how things depend on each other, how data flows — see what a change will touch before you make it
- You own the reports and outputs, and can hand them straight to a client or to management as an attachment for handover, acceptance or a quote
Relevant frameworks (all built in): OWASP Top 10ISO 27001TOGAFTW-PDPA
Taking over a legacy system: the full picture → Suppliers answering customer security questionnaires
Answer the code and supply-chain questions with a report
Common Challenges
- Large customers send several supplier security questionnaires a year, and each one means reading code by hand to answer
- The questionnaires ask about secure development, dependencies, encryption and access control — and the answers live in different people's heads
- Customers want evidence, not a tick-box sheet, and you have no file to attach
- There is no dedicated security staff, and no plan yet to go for ISO 27001
How ForgeHelm Helps
- Secure development, encryption, access control and audit logging map to scan results and the coverage matrix, with file and line references
- The SBOM answers the dependency, licence and known-vulnerability questions directly (CycloneDX and SPDX)
- Evidence exports to PDF, Excel or CSV and attaches straight to your questionnaire response
- Policy, personnel and organisational process questions are still yours to answer — ForgeHelm only covers what can be verified in code and dependencies
Relevant frameworks (all built in): ISO 27001SOC 2OWASP Top 10SLSA