Compliance & Security Guardrails

Purpose and scope

Integrate governance into templates and pipelines to reduce manual burden.

Outcomes

• Automated policy checks in CI/CD.
• Default secrets rotation and key management.
• Lower audit effort and fewer late surprises.

Signals of trouble

• Manual compliance reviews at release time.
• Inconsistent enforcement across teams.
• Exceptions without expiry or review.

Remediation steps

1. Codify policies; block merges on violations with clear fixes.
2. Ship guardrails in templates; rotate secrets by default.
3. Track exceptions with owners and expiry dates.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/internal-platform-architecture/checklist.md guardrail tasks.

References

• Security policies; audit requirements.