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Flora Brandão for Upsun

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Stop assembling audit evidence by hand 🛠️

Spending the week before an audit pulling scattered logs out of multiple tools is a manual grind that does not actually make your systems safer.

The problem and fix:

  • Compliance evidence is usually scattered across CI systems, Git records, and access logs.
  • Drift happens when one-off configuration changes occur and records fall out of sync.
  • Automating evidence generation directly at the platform layer turns audit prep from a weeks-long research task into a simple lookup.
  • Pairing automated deployment logs with Git approval workflows gives auditors the change management proof they need.

Continuous evidence keeps releases from getting blocked by slow, manual verification steps. Check out the full post to read the complete technical breakdown:

Automated audit evidence generation | Upsun

Upsun Cloud logs every deploy, code push, and config change, turning SOC 2 and PCI DSS audit evidence into a byproduct of normal platform operation

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