SOC 2 · Trust Services Criterion CC8.1

Changes to infrastructure and software follow a managed change process

What an auditor asks for

An assessor samples production changes and checks that each one was requested, reviewed, and released through the managed path.

  • Change tickets
  • Release record

Evidence ShipReady collects for CC8.1

ShipReady maps CC8.1 to the engineering signals below. A control with no collected artifact stays a gap until an evidence run produces one — never an assumed pass.

  • Database posturedb-posture
  • Configuration exportsecurity-scan
  • CI/CD and source controliac-scan
  • CI/CD and source controlgithub-posture
  • CI/CD and source controlbitbucket-posture

Common gaps

  • No artifact has been collected yet — ShipReady records the CC8.1 control as a gap until an evidence run produces one, never as an assumed pass.
  • The connected source is unconfigured or has returned no posture, so the automated check cannot run (an unconfigured collector is a gap the owner can close).
  • The supporting record exists but was not reviewed in the current audit period, so the evidence has lapsed.

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