Database Audit Readiness Checklist

Every audit season starts with the same request: show what changed in the database, when, where, and by whom, and prove it was approved. For most teams, answering it means searching scripts, tickets, chat threads, and whatever the DBA on call happens to remember.

AI agents are making this harder. In Liquibase research, 96.5% of organizations report AI interacting with production databases, yet only 32% always or often create audit-ready change history.

The question isn’t whether your team can rebuild the history. It’s whether they should have to. This checklist shows where your audit evidence depends on memory instead of a system of record, so you can fix it before an auditor finds it in a sample.

What’s Inside

• A self-assessment across four areas: visibility, change evidence, control evidence, and audit readiness.
• A scoring guide that places your team at Audit-ready, Reconstructing, or Blind spot.
• Five capabilities to prioritize, from capturing change at the source to making audit readiness a standing state instead of a seasonal project.