This section is marked as To Be Drafted. It represents a strategic gap in the local repository's current footprint. Standard site assurance checklists, security compliance audits, Change Advisory Board (CAB) workflows, and regulatory policies are managed by SRE Operations and must be approved by the C3M Council before being permanently codified here.
Suggested Outline & Governing Decisions
When drafted, this chapter will serve as the detailed operational standard for securing and maintaining active runtime systems. It must cover the following core areas and structural decisions:
1. SRE Site Assurance Controls & Audits
- Decisions Owned: Mandatory operational benchmarks that every active Customer Product instance must pass to remain in production.
- Content to Cover:
- The Posture Checklist: Compliance criteria across Disaster Recovery (DR) testing, high-availability setups, network isolation, and encryption key management.
- Automated Assurance Scans: Deployment of continuous scanning tools that flag security or architectural policy drift.
2. Change Advisory Board (CAB) & Release Governance
- Decisions Owned: Approval workflows, maintenance windows, exception-handling protocols, and rollback thresholds for active customer releases.
- Content to Cover:
- The CAB Charter: Rules governing scheduled maintenance, zero-downtime deployment requirements, and sign-offs from SRE Site Assurance.
- The Rollback Trigger: Automated performance or error thresholds that force an immediate, automated rollback of a deployed release.
3. Compliance and Regulatory Posture (Regional & National)
- Decisions Owned: Compliance policies ensuring our systems conform to diverse regional financial regulations (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, regional central-bank data sovereignty mandates).
- Content to Cover:
- Standard data isolation and residency blueprints for multi-tenant environments.
- Audit-trail logging standards, cryptographic controls, and key rotation policies.