Modern CISOs face a daunting challenge: maintaining continuous audit readiness and risk oversight amid an explosion of security tools and data. The typical enterprise security team now operates a wide range of disparate security products, with the average security stack growing over 760% since 2014. Each tool generates compliance-relevant data, such as vulnerability scans, identity logs, cloud configurations, and ticket updates, often in incompatible formats. Manually stitching together these inputs to assess compliance is cumbersome and error-prone. It slows audit preparation and leaves organizations with a static, point-in-time view of risk. Traditional compliance processes can’t keep up in an age where development and deployment move at light speed.
Enter compliance as code. This emerging technology treats compliance information as machine-readable data that can be automatically updated and validated. RegScale, a leading Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) platform, was founded to automate risk and compliance activities and turn continuous monitoring into reality.
Achieving compliance as code at scale requires unifying disparate security tools into a cohesive pipeline.
Unifying Compliance and Security Data: RegScale and Synqly Solution
RegScale’s innovative platform delivers compliance as code by leveraging NIST’s Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) to represent security controls and assessments in a standardized, machine-readable format. Its cloud-native CCM solution provides continuous audit-readiness, updates evidence and paperwork automatically, and integrates compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments to speed up certifications while reducing costs.
To deliver its compliance automation and real-time risk visibility, RegScale pulls evidence and signals from an enterprise’s security, IT, and DevOps tools. This is where Synqly, an integration platform purpose-built for cybersecurity, comes in. Synqly is the integration layer between RegScale and the sprawling ecosystem of security tools. Instead of building custom integrations for each tool, RegScale uses Synqly’s platform as a unified interface to dozens of technologies, enabling customers to have a seamless compliance as code experience that works with their existing security investments.
Synqly provides ready-made connectors and an abstraction layer that normalizes data from various sources. At the core is the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard for security telemetry. Synqly ingests events and alerts from cloud platforms, endpoint agents, SIEMs, ticketing systems, and other solutions, normalizing their data into OCSF’s common format, enabling previously siloed tools to communicate.
The benefit for RegScale is huge: all incoming security evidence is already in a consistent schema and ready to be mapped into OSCAL compliance records. Synqly bridges the gap between raw security telemetry and compliance logic, translating logs and scan results into a form that RegScale’s compliance engine can ingest in real time.
Synqly’s platform offers a cloud-native, scalable architecture that can handle growing volumes of data and new tool integrations. Because Synqly constantly builds and maintains a library of pre-built connectors, RegScale can easily expand its integration capabilities without developing custom connectors for each new deployment.
By relying on Synqly, RegScale’s team avoids reinventing the wheel for each customer. Synqly handles API maintenance, data transformation, and uptime monitoring, offloading a significant engineering burden. Synqly reports that its platform can reduce the cost and complexity of building and supporting integrations by as much as 90%. In short, RegScale maintains the compliance policies, and Synqly integrates the products, forming an end-to-end pipeline from raw telemetry to real-time risk and compliance dashboards.
Continuous Automation, Real-Time Risk Visibility, and Audit Readiness
The RegScale and Synqly partnership empowers security and compliance teams by automating labor-intensive tasks, updating control documentation without human intervention, and providing up-to-the-minute visibility into risk.
Synqly’s connectors and unified data model ensure that new data sources speak the same language as existing ones. As your tech stack evolves, your continuous compliance processes keep pace. This is particularly important for CISOs who must respond to changing business needs and regulatory demands—whether onboarding a developer’s favorite new DevOps tool or meeting new security framework requirements, the integration backbone is already in place to support it.
The partnership also improves organizations’ security posture, allowing controls for frameworks like FedRAMP, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI to be monitored 24/7 and gaps to be detected sooner. By shifting security and compliance left in the development lifecycle, it offers a scalable and future-ready approach and reduces the risk of audit findings and security incidents.
The RegScale and Synqly partnership illustrates how organizations can finally bring agility and scalability to compliance and audit processes. By integrating a powerful compliance automation engine with OSCAL and continuous controls monitoring, with a flexible cybersecurity integration platform (with OCSF and an extensive connector ecosystem), security teams can eliminate data silos from their GRC programs. The result is compliance that keeps up with DevOps velocity: always-current, code-driven, and seamlessly integrated across the tech stack.
The ability to automate and continuously enforce compliance at scale is fast becoming not just a nice-to-have, but a strategic necessity. RegScale’s use of Synqly to drive compliance as code is a compelling example of how embracing integration and automation can empower security and compliance teams to meet that mandate, achieving stronger security outcomes with far less friction.
