Reference scenario
Case: production deploy with approval gate and evidence
DevOps team, Head of IT, and SRE, high-impact change in production environment with SOC 2 requirement.
Before
- Approval via Slack message without documented rollback plan
- Deploy executed without post-change verification checklist
- Incident postmortem without formal timeline for auditors
After
- Mandatory impact assessment with rollback plan before CAB approval
- Gate blocks deploy without formal approval recorded with timestamp and owner
- Post-deploy verification with evidence for each impacted system, trail ready for audit