Does GitLab's SOC 2 report cover our own SOC 2?

No. GitLab's own SOC 2 report covers the controls GitLab operates for its platform. Your examination covers how your company configures and uses GitLab: who has access, how it is authenticated, what is logged and how data in it is protected. Auditors read the vendor's report to decide what they can rely on, and the Vendor and Third-Party Risk Management Policy tells you to collect it at onboarding and annually.

What does the generator pre-fill when I arrive from this page?

The link on this page opens the generator with a preset that sets the source control to GitLab. The other answers (company, product, headcount, owners, data types, scope and review cadence) are yours to fill in. The policies render in your browser as Markdown; nothing is sent to a server and there is no signup.

Which policies change when I add GitLab to my answers?

5 policies name GitLab once it is in the intake: Access Control Policy, Change Management Policy, Secure Software Development Policy, Vulnerability and Patch Management Policy, Logging and Monitoring Policy. The free generator names it in scope, roles and procedures; the Audit Kit ($39 one-time) rewrites sections 4 and 5 of each policy with statements specific to how GitLab is configured, like the examples on this page. Refunds are available within 14 days on request.

SOC 2 policies for GitLab teams

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Author: Policyseed

GitLab is where code is reviewed and released, so it appears in the policies about change management, secure development, vulnerability handling, access to source code and what gets logged.

Source control and CI · Referenced by 5 of 22 policies · Generator preset available

The 5 policies that reference GitLab

With GitLab in your intake, these policies name it in their scope, roles and procedures. The other 17 policies in the set apply to your company regardless of tooling; the template index lists all 22.

P03 Access Control Policy: Defines how access to systems and data is requested, approved, provisioned, reviewed and removed.
P09 Change Management Policy: Requires that every change to production code, infrastructure and security-relevant configuration is proposed, reviewed, tested, approved and deployed through a controlled and traceable process.
P10 Secure Software Development Policy: Embeds security into how the product is designed, built, tested, dependency-managed and released so that vulnerabilities are prevented or found before they reach customers.
P11 Vulnerability and Patch Management Policy: Establishes how vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, infrastructure, endpoints and vendor services are discovered, rated, remediated within defined timeframes and verified.
P12 Logging and Monitoring Policy: Defines which security-relevant events are logged across the product, cloud and corporate systems, how logs are protected and retained, and how alerts are triaged and acted on.

What the Audit Kit writes for GitLab

The free generator fills in names. The Audit Kit goes further: Claude rewrites section 4 (Policy Statements) and section 5 (Procedures) of each policy using your full intake, so the text describes GitLab the way you actually run it. The statements below are examples of that output for GitLab; your own answers produce different text, and every statement should be checked against your configuration before management adopts it.

P03 Access Control Policy

Access to the top-level GitLab group is enforced through SAML single sign-on with the identity provider with SSO-only authentication enabled, two-factor authentication is required at the group level, and membership of subgroups and projects is granted through identity-provider-linked groups using the least role needed: Developer by default, Maintainer for release engineers, and Owner limited to two named people.

CI/CD jobs authenticate to the cloud provider with GitLab OpenID Connect ID tokens rather than long-lived credentials stored as CI/CD variables. Any variable that must exist is marked protected and masked, and the production protected environment requires approval from the release engineering group before a deployment job runs.

P09 Change Management Policy

The main branch of every deployable project is a protected branch that allows no direct pushes and permits merges by Maintainers only. Merge request approval rules require at least one approval from a Code Owner, with Prevent approval by author and Remove all approvals when commits are added enabled, and pipelines must succeed before merge.

P10 Secure Software Development Policy

Merge request pipelines run GitLab SAST, Secret Detection, Dependency Scanning and IaC Scanning, findings appear in the merge request security widget, and a merge request approval policy requires approval from the security group whenever a change introduces a Critical or High finding.

P11 Vulnerability and Patch Management Policy

Dependency Scanning and Container Scanning findings are triaged in the group Vulnerability Report. Critical findings are remediated within seven days and High within thirty days, every dismissed finding carries a recorded reason, and secret push protection blocks commits that contain credentials from being pushed.

P12 Logging and Monitoring Policy

Group audit events are delivered to the central logging tool through audit event streaming, and alerts fire on changes to protected branches, approval rules, group membership, group-level CI/CD variables and personal access tokens. The Security Owner matches each alert to an approved ticket weekly.

How to use this page

Open the generator with the GitLab preset and answer the remaining questions: company, product, headcount, other tools, data types, owners, scope and review cadence.
Download the 22 policies as Markdown. Read the sections that mention GitLab with the admin console open and fix anything that is not true of your setup.
Optionally buy the Audit Kit to have sections 4 and 5 tailored to GitLab and the rest of your stack, and to get Word documents, the TSC crosswalk, an evidence checklist, acknowledgment forms and a review calendar in one ZIP built on your machine.
Have management approve the policies, collect acknowledgments, and start producing the evidence the procedures describe. The CPA firm performs the examination.

Other tools

Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Vercel, Cloudflare

Source control and CI: GitHub

Identity providers: Google Workspace, Okta, Microsoft 365

Vendors and subprocessors: Supabase, Clerk

Frequently asked questions

Does GitLab's SOC 2 report cover our own SOC 2?: No. GitLab's own SOC 2 report covers the controls GitLab operates for its platform. Your examination covers how your company configures and uses GitLab: who has access, how it is authenticated, what is logged and how data in it is protected. Auditors read the vendor's report to decide what they can rely on, and the Vendor and Third-Party Risk Management Policy tells you to collect it at onboarding and annually.
What does the generator pre-fill when I arrive from this page?: The link on this page opens the generator with a preset that sets the source control to GitLab. The other answers (company, product, headcount, owners, data types, scope and review cadence) are yours to fill in. The policies render in your browser as Markdown; nothing is sent to a server and there is no signup.
Which policies change when I add GitLab to my answers?: 5 policies name GitLab once it is in the intake: Access Control Policy, Change Management Policy, Secure Software Development Policy, Vulnerability and Patch Management Policy, Logging and Monitoring Policy. The free generator names it in scope, roles and procedures; the Audit Kit ($39 one-time) rewrites sections 4 and 5 of each policy with statements specific to how GitLab is configured, like the examples on this page. Refunds are available within 14 days on request.

Policyseed provides governance policy templates and AI tailoring. It is not legal advice and not a compliance guarantee. Management adopts the policies; the CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination.