How Tines achieved SOC 2 compliance in record time, saving 250+ human hours

Written by Brandon MaxwellHead of IT Operations & Information Security, Tines

Published on March 2, 2023

This article was posted more than 18 months ago.

Achieving any kind of compliance can be grueling. Ensuring your organization is SOC 2 compliant is often a particularly laborious endeavor, requiring extensive resources to obtain and maintain.

SOC 2 is a comprehensive cybersecurity compliance framework developed by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants). It helps guarantee third-party service providers handle customer data with appropriate security measures. In short, it's an assurance of protection when entrusting sensitive information to external entities.

In previous blogs, we highlighted the importance of considering compliance as the first step in your security strategy and how to use Tines to help you automate common compliance processes.

In this post, we look at how we used our no-code automation platform to transform the entire SOC 2 process and achieve compliance in record time. Using just two easy automation Stories, we reduced the time and effort involved by 250 human hours! And in total, the entire process took us just four months to review and provide evidence for 110 controls from start to finish.

Why do SOC 2 audits matter? 

At Tines, like most security-centric companies, SOC 2 is essential to our commitment to customer trust. Though it's only one element in a sound cybersecurity strategy, conducting and completing the audit process requires significant time and resources – making its successful completion cause for celebration internally and externally alike!

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