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4 questions in Audit Evidence.

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An audit requires evidence that controls operated throughout the period. How should that evidence be produced?

Preparing for an audit consumes weeks of engineering time every cycle. What should change architecturally?

Your assurance report covers a twelve-month observation window ending 31 March. In February the assessor asks for the pipeline record of every production deploy in that window. CI build logs are kept 90 days and the cloud audit trail 90 days. What do you fix?

Your organisation is preparing for its first SOC 2 audit. The security team is asking engineers for screenshots of configurations. What would you change, and what is the architectural argument?