Attestation in Cybersecurity: Types, Uses & Best Practices

This article explains the concept of attestation—how systems prove their integrity and provenance—covers attestation types, components, and practical use cases (device integrity, secure boot, cloud workload trust, identity), lists best practices for evidence, CI/CD integration, cryptographic provenance, and alignment with SBOM/vulnerability management, and includes a vendor section describing Mend.io's continuous attestation and audit-ready evidence capabilities.