What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SEC11-BP06 Deploy software programmatically?

Pipeline definitions; Approval gate configuration; Production deploy audit log; Human deploy exception register.

What is the most common gap auditors find on SEC11-BP06?

manual deployments to production

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · Application Security

`SEC11-BP06` Deploy software programmatically

Deploy through automated pipelines with separation of duties, approvals and audit so no human pushes code or infrastructure directly to production.

Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC11-BP06. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

easy

to go live

Cloud console / configuration management

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

Approval gate configuration · Cloud console / configuration management
Production deploy audit log · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Pipeline definitions · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Human deploy exception register · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your Cloud console / configuration management. Configuration snapshots and change history from the cloud console or IaC repository, diffed against the baseline.

Common gaps auditors find

manual deployments to production
no separation between build and deploy roles
no audit of deployments

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

Build my evidence sheet

SEC11-BP05 Centralize services for packages and dependencies · SEC11-BP07 Regularly assess security properties of the pipelines