Go-to Microsoft partner for requirements management since 2015
Neglected change management systems cost US financial institutions $350 million in 2025-26.
Azure DevOps captures every change but without enforced segregation of duties, structured approvals, and on-demand audit trails, that data stays invisible when examiners arrive.
Regulators have raised the number of crackdowns.
In 2025-26 alone, 50 such incidents have been reported, which is a 40% increase from 2024. Since June 2023, more than 100 formal enforcement actions have been filed across the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC combined.
3X
Increase in OCC formal enforcement actions in 2024 vs 2023
100+
Formal enforcement actions across Fed, OCC, and FDIC since June 2023
1 in 4
US public companies reports a material weakness every year
#1
Cause of material weakness disclosures: program change control failures
What FFIEC examiners expect
What SOX auditors require
Authorized change requests approved by someone other than the developer, signed off before production deployment, with proof that no one bypassed the process.
Is Your Azure DevOps Environment Audit-Ready?
Built specifically for BFSI engineering and compliance leaders running their SDLC on Azure DevOps.
- Live + On-Demand Available
- BFSI & Azure DevOps teams
- Free whitepaper included
AI authors code. Compliance hasn't caught up.
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot pass regulated code through third-party servers, creating audit trail gaps under SOX and PCI-DSS. Agentic AI is going further making autonomous changes inside pipelines that no human explicitly approved. When something goes wrong, SOX auditors ask one question: who is the accountable human author? Right now, most BFSI engineering teams do not have a clean answer. The SEC, OCC, and FDIC have all moved to formally examine how organizations govern AI inside their delivery pipelines.
"If an AI-authored change enters your pipeline today and something goes wrong can you reconstruct who reviewed it, what it changed, and whether your controls were enforced?"
Having Azure DevOps Is Not the Same as Being Audit-Ready on Azure DevOps.
Every change your team makes every commit, approval, branch merge, and pipeline execution is already logged inside Azure DevOps. Regulators expect you to produce that evidence systematically, on demand, mapped directly to the controls they are examining.
Most BFSI organizations cannot do this. Not because the data does not exist, but because Azure DevOps has not been configured to:
Consistently enforce segregation of duties at the branch policy level
Surface a traceable link from regulatory requirement through to production deployment
Generate structured approval records that satisfy SOX and FFIEC evidentiary standards
Flag AI-authored changes against governance rules before they reach production
The result is the same in every audit cycle: your team spends weeks manually reconstructing what Azure DevOps already knows.Â
"If an OCC examiner or SOX auditor asked today for a complete change audit trail within 24 hours how confident are you in that answer?"
Be Audit-Ready by Design
Modern Requirements operates natively inside Azure DevOps no new platform, no data duplication, no synchronisation gaps. The evidence your auditors need is structured, enforced, and surfaced from within the environment your teams already use.
Capabilities Designed for Regulated Environments
Every capability maps directly to what OCC, FFIEC, SOX, and OSFI examiners ask for inside the Azure DevOps environment your teams already use.
Requirements Management in Azure DevOps
Manage regulatory, security, and business requirements spanning federal, state, and provincial obligations in a single, unified system.
Impact Analysis
Instantly assess the impact of regulatory updates such as PCI DSS 4.0 migration deadlines, OSFI B-13 implementation timelines, or new SEC disclosure rules across all connected systems and requirements.
Traceability Matrix
Visualize end-to-end relationships between regulations, risks, controls, and deliverables satisfying the traceability expectations of FFIEC, OSFI, SOX auditors, and PCI QSAs.
Baseline & Version Control
Maintain immutable historical records of requirements and controls meeting SOX Section 302/404 documentation standards, OSFI supervisory expectations, and FINRA/CIRO recordkeeping rules.
Review & Approval Workflows
Enforce segregation of duties and governance controls required under SOX, PCI DSS, OSFI Corporate Governance Guideline, and FFIEC IT examination standards.
Audit & Evidence Reporting
Generate audit-ready reports with complete traceability and compliance validation formatted to meet the evidentiary standards of OCC, FDIC, OSFI, FINTRAC, and provincial regulator examinations.
Compliance by Design in Azure DevOps: A BFSI CIO's Guide
A working session for BFSI tech leaders to find and close Azure DevOps compliance gaps before examiners do.
The specific controls OCC, FFIEC, and SOX examiners look for inside a DevOps pipeline, and the exact evidence they expect to find
How AI-generated code is creating accountability chain gaps that most Azure DevOps configurations cannot currently close
What an audit-ready Azure DevOps environment looks like in practice, walked through live
Three questions every BFSI CIO should be asking their engineering team before the next examination cycle
Enterprise-grade Security and Compliance Designed for Regulated Insurance Teams
SOC 2 Type II Certified Platform
Ensures strict controls for data handling, access management, change governance, and operational security. Ideal for insurers managing sensitive policy, claims, underwriting, and customer data.
Compliant With US & Canadian Financial Security Standards
Supports PCI DSS 4.0, SOX, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, OSFI B-13/E-21, PIPEDA, CCPA, and FINTRAC reporting obligations with full data protection, encryption, and audit-ready traceability built directly into Azure DevOps.
How We Power Through For Your Projects
"Zions selected Modern Requirements4 DevOps as a solution uniquely positioned to fill our need, while also adding additional requirements functionality. We quickly began migrating content from DOORS Next Generation to the new platform. We collaborated weekly, and as a result implemented a seamless migration with additional requirements visualization features."
Reserve Your Seat
- Live + On-Demand
- Date TBC
