CI/CD Pipelines

In a regulated environment the delivery pipeline is part of the boundary, not a tool that sits outside it. Whatever the pipeline can reach, an assessor can ask about. Most teams discover this during their first audit, when the toolchain turns out to hold credentials into production and nobody can show what changed between two releases.

We build pipelines that emit signed artifacts, SBOMs, and control evidence on every run, with federated short-lived credentials from a runner that stays outside the boundary and no long-lived access keys in CI secrets. Baseline configuration is enforced by policy at the admission point, so a non-compliant change is rejected and the rejection is itself written to the audit trail. Continuous monitoring becomes a query an assessor can run rather than a package your team reconstructs. The engineering is the same under every framework. What changes is which controls the evidence has to satisfy.