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Change records as auditable evidence: controls, approvals, testing, exceptions, and the operational facts regulators expect to reconstruct.

Compliance work becomes fragile when a control exists only as a policy sentence and not as a sequence of observable actions. Auditors and control owners need to trace a material change from request through authorization, implementation, testing, and closure, including the reason an exception was permitted. That makes the ITSM record more than a ticket: it is the bridge between SOX ITGCs, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, DORA resilience obligations, and the people who actually change systems. Security, internal audit, platform teams, and application owners often disagree about what counts as sufficient proof, especially when automated delivery replaces a familiar approval screen.

The articles in this collection focus on making that proof defensible without asking operators to manufacture it after the fact. They map control language to evidence sources such as peer review, segregation of duties, implementation logs, validation results, risk acceptance, and post-change review. They also address deadline-driven remediation, where a documented decision to defer or use compensating controls may matter as much as the patch itself. The practical question throughout is whether an independent reviewer can understand what changed, who accepted the residual risk, and why the control operated as designed. That standard exposes weak records early, while there is still time to correct the workflow rather than explain an avoidable gap.

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