Audits slow down engineers when evidence is scattered. This blueprint shows how to put DevSecOps and compliance on the same rails so you can ship faster while staying audit-ready.

Outcomes to target

• Identity-first security: enforced SSO/MFA everywhere, least-privilege IAM roles, short-lived credentials.
• Automated evidence: pipeline runs, change approvals, and policy results automatically captured.
• Secure delivery: SAST/secret scanning, signed artifacts, protected environments, and change windows.
• Observability for audits: retention-configured logs/metrics/traces with alerts mapped to controls.
• DR you can prove: tested backups, documented runbooks, quarterly tabletop exercises.

Recommended stack

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions or GitLab with OIDC to cloud; environment protection; required reviewers.
• IaC: Terraform or Crossplane with drift detection and policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest).
• Secrets/identity: Cloud IAM + Vault/Secrets Manager; rotate keys; remove long-lived tokens.
• Evidence capture: push pipeline logs and change approvals to a single bucket/log index; tag releases with ticket/change IDs.
• Monitoring: Grafana/Loki/Prometheus or CloudWatch + alerting channels mapped to sev levels.
• Backups/DR: versioned buckets, database snapshots, restore drill at least quarterly.

Quick-start 30-day plan

• Week 1: Lock down IAM/SSO, enable branch protection, add secret scanning, and set up evidence storage.
• Week 2: Add IaC validation + policy checks, implement environment approvals, map alerts to playbooks.
• Week 3: Instrument observability gaps; enable log retention and audit trails.
• Week 4: Run a DR/tabletop exercise; finalize the control map and evidence index.

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