What preparations support CLM admin audits and ensure compliance?

• A. Rely on vendor compliance
• B. Maintain up-to-date documentation of configurations, roles, access reviews, change history, and run compliance reports
• C. Audit only during go-live
• D. Document nothing and perform reviews ad-hoc

Answer: (B)

Audit readiness in CLM comes from keeping clear, current evidence of how the system is configured and who has access. Maintaining up-to-date documentation of configurations, roles, access reviews, change history, and regularly generating compliance reports creates a verifiable trail auditors can follow. This shows that access is appropriately managed, changes are tracked, and governance is continuously monitored against policy and regulatory requirements. Relying on vendor compliance alone shifts control outside your organization’s audit trail and may not reflect your actual environment. Auditing only at go-live misses post-implementation changes, and documenting nothing with ad-hoc reviews provides no reliable evidence for audits. The best practice is to keep comprehensive, current records and run regular compliance reports to demonstrate ongoing governance.