Smarter Compliance, Stronger Security: The RegScale + Tines Advantage

In complex, high-stakes environments like finance, energy, and federal agencies, compliance isn’t optional; it’s mission-critical. But traditional compliance practices — manual evidence collection, fragmented workflows, and siloed communications — can drain resources, frustrate staff, and delay decision-making. 

That’s where RegScale + Tines step in. In part 1 of this blog series, we described how the RegScale-Tines integration enables smarter, faster, and more secure compliance operations through AI and automation. Today, we’ll dive into more technical details about the integration and how it’s saving compliance teams valuable time and energy. 

Manual Scripting Falls Short

Before Tines, organizations often relied on custom Python scripts or expensive custom development to build more complex and company-specific compliance workflows for things like collecting evidence and validating assets. While functional, these scripts came with big problems. 

They quickly became outdated with platform updates. Script-based workflows that work off of API calls are subject to erratic behavior or may stop working entirely when a vendor updates their API. Without proactively identifying and logging, identifying the impacted scripts will be reactive and after-the-fact; only when someone notices that something has broken will it get fixed.  

Sample python script to just send an email

They lack monitoring and transparency. Python scripts typically lack sophisticated monitoring capabilities to detect and report issues when APIs change and cause unusual behavior or break completely. While it is possible to build that into the scripts, this type of in-depth monitoring and alerting is not what they were built to do. Scripts are also more difficult to troubleshoot when they do break, as they require domain expertise to find and fix problems.  

They create delays for updates or fixes. Once a broken script is identified, someone with the right technical knowledge has to figure out what changed and what needs to be updated to accommodate the change to the API. This also means that whoever is reviewing the script must re-familiarize themselves with the script before starting, introducing another delay. 

They require deep technical skills that most compliance teams don’t have. These Python scripts are highly technical and built and maintained by departments like IT, DevOps, or R&D. Changes to the scripts require engaging with other teams and fighting for resources to make the updates, perform testing, and update in production.  

Enter Tines: Automation Without the Headaches

Tines, the secure no-code automation platform, has eliminated the scripting burden for compliance workflows. Users no longer need to have scripting and coding expertise to take advantage of the benefits of automation. Instead, they can manage workflows with drag-and-drop logic, visual monitoring, and seamless integration.  

Tines’ no-code/low-code visual interface allows users to visually create workflows without having to be coding experts. This drastically reduces the time to create or update workflows as the business grows. With built-in alerting and logging, issues in the workflow or connections to other products are immediately highlighted and easy to fix. 

Key benefits: 

• Massively reduced timeline for fixes  
• Full visibility into what’s working and what’s not 
• Out-of-the-box flexibility for customer-specific compliance processes 
• Minimal effort required from the end user — they can submit risks, issues, or evidence without logging into RegScale, as well as more easily and securely collect resources/evidence from external sources 

Making Staff Smarter (Not Busier)

With the RegScale-Tines integration, compliance teams can focus on strategic tasks without wondering if what they see is up to date and accurate. 

Teams don’t chase evidence — it’s automatically requested, received, validated, and logged. When new or updated evidence is required, RegScale sets a flag for the evidence request. Tines takes the information about the control, the owner, and the required evidence, generates an email, and sends the request to the control owner. The control owner can either respond to the email by attaching the evidence or click on a link to upload it into a portal. Once the evidence has been received, the workflow notifies the compliance team that there is new evidence to review. 

Third-party vendors can respond via email or simple forms — no login required. Remove the need to manage and track external users and logins, which drains time from other priorities and needlessly adds risk. Third-party vendors are mapped to controls in RegScale to kick off the same flagging workflow, with Tines dynamically building the custom evidence request notification for the vendor. Once the vendor responds, Tines routes the information back to RegScale for evaluation. 

Risk and compliance teams can focus on thinking, not tracking down PDFs. RegScale’s evidence management determines when evidence needs to be updated based on the control and policy. When evidence needs to be updated, RegScale sets a trigger for Tines to initiate the update workflow automatically. The compliance team monitors the status of evidence and is notified when it is updated. Gone are the days of manually building emails and trying to track what has and has not been submitted for review. 

An additional benefit? Highly customized notification and approval workflows can be developed to ensure that evidence collection matches perfectly with established company procedures while removing the manual burden from already overworked compliance teams. 

Real Security and Risk Reduction

Security isn’t just about tools; it’s also about how those tools integrate. If security responsibilities are siloed, business operations will suffer, and critical vulnerabilities will emerge in the gaps between disconnected systems. 

While industry-leading platforms like Wiz, Jira, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, and Splunk all excel at their core functions, their true value is unlocked only through seamless, strategic integration. Without proper interconnection, even the most sophisticated security stack creates blind spots that leave your organization exposed to unnecessary risk. 

Tines enables RegScale to securely plug into ITIL tools, DevOps tools, and security tools in order to monitor workflow health, avoid blind spots, and detect issues before customers experience failure. 

Customers gain: 

• Real-time insights into compliance posture 
• Consistent evidence submission from internal and external parties 
• Reduction in missed deadlines, outdated controls, and audit gaps 
• Efficient use of staff resources 

You Reap the Benefits 

With RegScale + Tines, organizations benefit in multiple ways. Businesses can get: 

• Stronger security via automated checks, workflows, and alerts 
• Faster compliance without the clunky scripting or long lead times 
• Lower risk via real-time visibility and reduced manual failure points 
• Greater staff efficiency with fewer emails, fewer errors, and faster outcomes 
• Seamless integration into company processes and procedures 

Whether it’s integrating with Jira, collecting third-party evidence, or launching asset approval flows, the RegScale-Tines integration delivers unmatched adaptability and impact. 

Intelligently Automate Your Compliance Today  

RegScale + Tines bring together AI, automation, flexibility, and power to make compliance something your team wants to manage. Book a call here to learn more.