Maintain a centralized, continuously updated compliance records repository is the correct practice that most reliably ensures Meridian Shops remains prepared for compliance inspections.

The centralized, continuously updated repository creates a single source of truth for policies procedures control evidence and audit artifacts. It makes items quickly retrievable and it supports versioning retention metadata and access controls so auditors can validate controls without delay.

When the repository is continuously updated it captures evidence such as signed attestations configuration snapshots monitoring outputs and change logs. Integrating the repository with automated exports role based access and immutable storage strengthens the reliability and provenance of evidence during inspections.

Provide staff education programs on compliance obligations and audit procedures is helpful for awareness and reducing human error but training alone does not produce or organize the documentary evidence auditors expect to see.

Automate evidence collection using Cloud Asset Inventory and Cloud Audit Logs can supply useful artifacts but these tools are components of an evidence pipeline rather than a complete answer. They require aggregation indexing retention policies and contextual documentation in a central repository and they may not cover offline or third party evidence without additional processes.

Hold regular internal reviews to detect and remediate compliance gaps helps find and fix issues proactively but reviews must generate and store documented evidence to satisfy inspectors. Without a maintained central records repository the output of reviews can be fragmented or hard to present.

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