Validation Record

Change Control Evidence: Deterministic SOX-Ready Records

Change control evidence links findings, governance declarations, and decision outputs to immutable hashes. This provides a replayable record for SOX, OCC, and internal audit without relying on verbal attestations.

What change control evidence captures

Each bundle records inputs, registry version, declared context, findings, decisions, and boundary statements. Hashes make tampering detectable. Context locks prevent silent scope drift.

Why this is defensible

Auditors can replay the bundle and confirm the same hashes and decisions. Any change to source, rules, or context produces a new bundle, making unauthorized changes visible.

Governance consequence

Change approval without evidence becomes non-defensible. With evidence, approvals and refusals are anchored to a record that can survive regulator and board scrutiny.

Authority boundary statement

Where provability terminates, authority terminates.

Evidence and verification

Hashes record the exact state reviewed at approval time.
Context and decisions are stored alongside findings, not separately.
Replays show whether a change is new evidence or a re-issued decision.

Verified authority record

View change-control evidence in PDF form: Download authority record (PDF)