Security and privacy compliance certifications—like SOC 2 (a leading audit standard for security, availability, and confidentiality) and HITRUST (a healthcare-focused security framework)—are quickly becoming standard requirements for healthcare, finance, and other regulated industries building on Drupal. The challenge isn’t just writing policies—it’s proving through code, infrastructure, and process that your systems are secure and well-governed. Waiting until audit season to start preparing is a guaranteed recipe for chaos.

This session shares engineering lessons from Encore Healthcare’s journey to SOC 2 and HITRUST readiness on a Drupal-based SaaS platform. Instead of focusing on checklists, we’ll explore how to design Drupal architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure so compliance readiness is continuous, not seasonal. You’ll see how access control, logging, configuration management, and deployment pipelines can produce auditable evidence automatically.

We’ll cover aligning Drupal’s configuration management, custom modules, and hosting environments with security controls for change management, encryption, and least privilege. You’ll learn how observability practices can turn audit requirements into real-time visibility and ongoing assurance.

You’ll leave with a blueprint for building compliance-aware Drupal applications where your infrastructure, code, and processes work together to make audits almost boring.