Audit Preparation Toolkit
Curated resources for compliance officers, auditors, and risk managers assessing CI/CD environments in regulated industries. Everything below is designed to be directly actionable — checklists you can use, evidence packs you can reference, and frameworks you can apply.
Audit Checklists & Readiness Guides
Prepare for audits with structured checklists covering CI/CD controls, evidence requirements, and common findings.
- Before the Auditor Arrives — CI/CD Audit Readiness Checklist
- Audit Day Playbook — How to handle CI/CD audits in regulated environments
- Audit Day Q&A Cheat Sheet
- DORA Article 28 — Auditor Checklist
- NIS2 Audit Checklist — Evidence Pack
- SOC 2 Readiness Assessment — CI/CD Checklist
- Common Audit Findings — Top 10 CI/CD Failures
Evidence Packs
Pre-structured evidence frameworks showing what auditors need and where to find it.
- DORA Article 21 — Evidence Pack for Auditors
- DORA Article 28 — Evidence Pack (Auditor & Engineer Views)
- NIS2 Supply Chain Evidence Pack (Finance & Public Sector Variants)
- Building an Evidence Repository for Continuous Compliance
Controls Mappings
How regulatory requirements map to specific CI/CD controls — the bridge between compliance frameworks and pipeline architecture.
- ISO 27001 Annex A → CI/CD Controls Mapping
- SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria → Pipeline Controls
- DORA Article 21 → CI/CD Controls Mapping
- NIS2 Article 21 → CI/CD Controls Mapping
- CI/CD Security Tools → Controls Mapping
- DORA Article 28 — Controls & Evidence Mapping
Cross-Regulation Comparisons
For organisations subject to multiple frameworks — understand where they overlap, diverge, and how to build efficient multi-framework compliance.
- ISO 27001 vs DORA vs NIS2 — Controls Overlap Matrix
- NIS2 vs DORA — Overlap Analysis for Dual-Regulated Entities
- Dual-Compliance Architecture Explained
- Compliance Mapping — ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / DORA
- Compliance Mapping — NIS2 / PCI DSS
Governance Frameworks
Organisational models, responsibility matrices, and maturity frameworks for DevSecOps governance in regulated environments.
- DevSecOps RACI Matrix for Regulated Organizations
- DevSecOps Operating Models — Centralized vs Federated vs Hybrid
- AppSec Governance Model — Roles, Responsibilities, and Oversight
- Application Risk Classification Framework
- DevSecOps Maturity Assessment Framework
- DevSecOps Program — Board-Level Reporting and KPIs
For Non-Technical Readers
- Start Here — Auditor’s Guide to CI/CD Security — Structured introduction for non-technical professionals
- Glossary — Plain-language definitions of CI/CD and DevSecOps terms
- Executive Audit Briefing — CI/CD pipelines in regulated environments
For technical implementation guidance (code, configurations, tool setup), visit our sister site secure-pipelines.com.
