Compliance release sign-offs in Jira

If your releases fall under SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or internal change control, the audit question is always the same: who approved this change, against what evidence, and can you prove it months later? Spreadsheets and Slack threads don't survive that question. Jira knows what shipped — but not who signed it off, or what the evidence looked like at the moment they did.

Greenlight adds the missing layer inside Jira: a board of required sign-off gates per release, each owned by an accountable person, with the evidence frozen at approval time and every decision in a permanent audit trail.

How Greenlight maps to change control

• Gates are your control points. Security review, QA validation, change approval, compliance sign-off — each one a named gate with a human owner (or an M-of-N approver panel for CAB-style decisions).
• Evidence is frozen at sign-off. The moment a gate is approved or rejected, Greenlight snapshots its checklist state, evidence links, and linked Jira issue statuses. If a wiki page changes later, your audit record doesn't.
• Required gates can be locked. A Jira admin can lock gates on the organization's release templates so project teams can't remove "Security review" from their copy — governance that survives team-level convenience.
• Everything is auditable. Approvals, rejections, revocations, and manager overrides are recorded with actor, timestamp, and note. The readiness report exports as PDF or CSV for your auditor.
• Sign-off is always human. Greenlight never auto-approves; automation can assemble the release, but a person owns each decision.

Template pack: Compliance release

Recreate this in Greenlight → Administration → New global template (a Jira admin can lock the required gates), or start from the built-in Software Version template and adapt:

Gate	Suggested owner	Checklist seeds	Required
Change request	Release manager	Change ticket raised · Risk assessment recorded · Rollback plan documented	Yes 🔒
Security review	Security lead	Dependency scan clean · Pen-test findings triaged · Secrets audit passed	Yes 🔒
QA validation	QA lead	Test plan executed · Regression suite green · No open blocker bugs	Yes 🔒
Change approval (CAB)	Approver panel, 2-of-3	Change window agreed · Stakeholders notified	Yes 🔒
Compliance sign-off	Compliance officer	Controls checklist verified · Evidence links attached	Yes 🔒
Documentation	Docs owner	Runbook updated · Customer-facing notes drafted	Yes

Tips: use an approver panel on the CAB gate so any 2 of 3 named approvers carry the decision; add each control's evidence as link items on the gate so it's captured in the approval snapshot.

What the audit sees

For every release: which gates were required, who approved each one and when, what the evidence looked like at that moment, and any overrides — with the override actor and reason. Exportable per release as a signed-off readiness report (PDF/CSV).

Greenlight runs entirely on Atlassian Forge with zero data egress — no data ever leaves your Atlassian site, which keeps your own vendor review short.