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DevSecOps That Produces Audit Evidence Automatically
How to bake security checks and evidence capture into CI/CD so compliance stops being a fire drill.
Make evidence a byproduct of delivery
Teams often treat compliance evidence as a manual task: screenshots, spreadsheets, and status decks. The better way is to generate evidence automatically from pipelines, tickets, and logs.
Evidence sources auditors trust
- CI/CD logs: who built what, when, and which tests ran.
- IaC diffs: infrastructure changes in version control.
- Approvals: pull requests, change tickets, and peer reviews.
- Security scans: SAST, dependency, container, and IaC scan reports.
Gates that don’t slow teams down
- Fail builds for critical vulnerabilities, warn for medium.
- Enforce encryption and “no public access” policies via policy-as-code.
- Promote environments with approvals tied to change records.
What to automate first
- Dependency/SBOM generation
- IaC scanning + policy checks
- Artifact signing and provenance
- Release notes and change log export
Next steps
We can implement a lean DevSecOps evidence pipeline that supports audits without turning engineers into documentation clerks.