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 named human owner who is accountable for the decision.
• 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.
• Templates are versioned. Every edit bumps the version and each release records which template and version seeded it, so "what process did we follow in March?" has an answer.
• Everything is auditable. Approvals, rejections, revocations, and manager overrides are recorded with actor, timestamp, and note, and the readiness report gathers them into one document 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, 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)	Change manager	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

Tip: add each control's evidence as link items on the gate, so it is captured in the approval snapshot rather than living in someone's inbox.

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. Available per release as a signed-off readiness report.

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