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SOC 2 Evidence from CI/CD Pipelines

Automating control evidence access reviews, change management, vulnerability scanning for SOC 2 Type II audits.

SOC 2 Evidence from CI/CD Pipelines

Control mapping examples

SOC 2 criteriaAutomated evidence
CC6.1 Logical accessIAM export, MFA enrollment report
CC7.2 System monitoringSIEM alert metrics, uptime SLO
CC8.1 Change managementGit merge history, approved PRs, deploy logs

Pipeline artifacts to retain

  • PR approval records (GitHub/GitLab API)
  • CI test and security scan results (SARIF archives)
  • Signed deployment manifests with digest
  • Terraform plan/apply logs in immutable storage

Quarterly automation

Cron job → collect evidence → upload to audit bucket → index in GRC tool

Auditor-friendly package

  1. Control narrative (what + how)
  2. Sample population with timestamps
  3. Screenshots/API exports hashed for integrity
  4. Exception register with approvals

Research note

Teams automating evidence collection reduce audit prep from weeks to days when pipelines are the system of record for change.