Verified Accuracy: Jan 11, 2026SOC 2 (2025)
SOC 2 Evidence Pack
Change Management for Agile Teams
How to satisfy CC3.2 and CC8.1 without slowing down your CI/CD pipeline.
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What auditors look for
Auditors want to see design and operating effectiveness for this area—clear owners, repeatable processes, and evidence that the control works over time.
Evidence checklist
- •Pull requests with approvals and CI results
- •Change tickets with risk/impact noted
- •Release approvals or deployment change records
- •Rollback plans or automated rollback configurations
- •Evidence of emergency change handling
- •Separation of duties for code review and deploy
- •Testing results or staging sign-off records
- •Deploy logs showing who deployed and when
- •Post-deploy validation or monitoring checks
- •Documented change freeze windows (if applicable)
Common mistakes to avoid
- •No approval evidence for critical changes
- •Missing rollback references
- •Merged code without CI or testing proof
- •Emergency changes not documented post-fact
- •Deploy permissions not reviewed regularly
How to produce evidence quickly
- Collect recent pull requests showing approvals and CI.
- Export deployment logs for the observation period.
- Document how emergency changes are recorded and reviewed.
- Include rollback procedures and evidence they are tested.
- Store artifacts with timestamps tied to change IDs.
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