Be audit-ready every day, across every database
Liquibase Pro streamlines database compliance with automated controls, tamper-evident logs, and out-of-the-box reporting that keeps your organization prepared for SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR.
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What is Compliance and Audit at the Database Layer?
Compliance and Audit at the database layer means capturing every schema change, proving enforcement of policies, and producing evidence on demand. With Liquibase Pro, you automate this process so every change is validated, logged, and reportable. That means no last-minute scrambles before the auditor arrives.
The Challenge
- Compliance teams spend weeks gathering manual evidence for audits.
- DBAs are asked to reconstruct change history after the fact.
- Developers lack guardrails, creating risky changes that auditors flag later.
- Regulators expect tamper-evident, automated evidence, not screenshots and spreadsheets.
The Result?
How Liquibase Pro Helps
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Liquibase Pro Compliance Framework
| Compliance Risk | How Liquibase Pro Helps | Liquibase Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Audit Failures | Every change is logged with who, what, where, and when. This creates tamper-evident, exportable audit trails for SOX, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and SOC 2 readiness. | .svg){kind=icon} |
| Separation of Duties Violations | Integrates with CI/CD pipelines, SSO, and existing access controls to enforce approvals. Developers move quickly while DBAs and security teams maintain oversight. | |
| Shadow Changes | Drift Detection identifies any schema changes made outside approved workflows, closing a major compliance blind spot. | |
| Insufficient Evidence Collection | Policy checks and audit logs generate exportable compliance reports instantly, reducing the burden of manual evidence gathering. | |
| Unapproved Privilege or Role Changes | Policy checks flag schema updates that modify privileges or roles. Combined with integration into existing access controls, this enforces least-privilege policies. | |
Business Outcomes
Proof in Action:
Zions Bank | Financial Services
Challenge
Solution
Resources to Accelerate Your Database Compliance and Audit Journey
FAQ
Most compliance tools focus on infrastructure or application logging, not schema change. That leaves a blind spot where risky changes slip through. Liquibase Pro enforces compliance directly at the schema layer, ensuring every change is tracked, validated, and audit-ready.
Liquibase Pro automatically generates tamper-evident logs of every database change, including who made it, when, and why. This eliminates manual evidence collection and ensures teams are audit-ready every day, across every database.
Yes. Policy Checks in Liquibase Pro evaluate changes against your compliance rules before deployment. Risky or non-compliant changes are blocked automatically, preventing issues from ever reaching production.
Liquibase Pro operationalizes many of the controls required by these frameworks. Audit trails, separation of duties, and automated enforcement map directly to regulatory requirements, simplifying compliance across industries.
Liquibase Pro integrates with SSO, RBAC, and secrets management so developers can push changes with guardrails, DBAs can review or approve when needed, and compliance teams get full visibility without slowing down delivery.
Yes. Manual reviews, ticket chasing, and one-off audit prep are replaced with standardized, automated checks. DBAs spend less time policing changes and more time focusing on performance, scalability, and architecture.
Liquibase Pro plugs into your existing CI/CD pipelines. Most teams start by running Liquibase Pro in “report only” mode to build confidence, then shift to blocking non-compliant changes once processes are aligned. Immediate audit readiness is achieved without major disruption.
