CI/CD Compliance Gates: Where to Enforce What in Your Pipeline

CC8.1

SOC 2 common criterion for change management â€” the CI/CD pipeline is the primary evidence source

Regulated CI/CD pipelines must do more than build and deploy â€” they must generate evidence that satisfies SOX ITGC change management, SOC 2 CC8.1 change control, and FedRAMP continuous monitoring requirements. SAST at pre-commit, DAST after staging deployment, SCA and SBOM generation at build, infrastructure policy-as-code enforcement at IaC plan, and manual approval gates for production changes are not optional in regulated environments. The architecture determines whether your compliance evidence is generated automatically or reconstructed manually before an audit.

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