We recently weighed in on the debate between full-code, low-code and no-code automation. In this post, developer and sales engineer Jesse Strivelli shares his perspective on using the native Tines builder to create automated workflows. I've been immersed in the world of programming for years, having pursued a computer science degree at university and accumulating extensive experience in the field, primarily with major Fortune 500 companies.

We're sometimes asked, "Can you run Bash or Python scripts natively in Tines?" and today, we're sharing the answer, and weighing in on the debate between full-code, low-code and no-code automation. The short answer is yes, you can run scripts and linux commands natively in Tines, however, you might not necessarily want to. Many of our customers avoid doing so for security, usability and performance reasons. Let's take a closer look at some of these potential pitfalls.

In January of this year, we introduced the ability to build apps with Tines. That launch marked an evolution of our pages feature, from forms into a powerful capability for collaboration and communication. Since then, we iterated quickly with features like self-submitting pages, multiple buttons, wider pages, advanced formatting options, and saved themes. One request we received time and time again was pages within pages. Our users wanted to surface a collection of pages from a single reference point.

With security team workloads increasing year-on-year, it’s no surprise that practitioners are selective about the cybersecurity events and conferences they attend. But despite reporting high levels of understaffing and burnout, most security pros find the time to attend these events. According to the 2023 Voice of the SOC report, which surveyed 900 practitioners in the US and Europe, 81% have attended at least one conference in the past two years.

In this episode of The Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas interviews industry veteran Dmitriy Sokolovskiy. Dmitriy is a founding member of (ISC)2 Eastern Massachusetts Chapter, and has over 25 years of experience in the security industry, having led teams at Putnam Investments, CyberArk, and, most recently, Avid. He’s a mentor and advisor to several successful startups and sits on the advisory board of companies like Audience 1st.

The story of how Tines scales starts in the product with, well, a story. Any user of Tines will be familiar with the basic concepts of actions and events. They know that when an action receives an event, it runs in order to, e.g., transform that event data or send it off to an API. They also know that when the action has finished running, it will usually emit an event containing its results – an event that will then be sent onwards, to other actions, causing them to run in turn.

Security teams are getting restless. Before founding Tines, I spent 15 years in the SOC leading teams charged with protecting organizations from ever-evolving threats. Over that time, the challenge facing SOC analysts became harder, not easier: workloads are increasing, but teams aren’t growing alongside them. SOC analysts are burning out as a result of tedious and repetitive tasks.

We’re thrilled to announce that Tines has been named HashiCorp’s 2023 Emerging Partner of the Year. The award is especially significant, as it marks the success of our partnership with HashiCorp within its very first year. Tines was recognized for our smart, secure workflow builder, which allows frontline teams to work more efficiently and effectively by incorporating HashiCorp Terraform and Vault across their automations.

Hi everyone, In a company all hands at the start of 2023, I shared that before the end of the year, we would officially make Tines available to teams outside security. You had a lot of questions, the most common of which was “why are we doing this?” My answer was that “this was always the plan”. Although true, that wasn’t exactly a helpful or insightful response.

At Tines we drink our own champagne. The tines@tines blog series is a testament to the unique ways we’ve leveraged Tines to accelerate our own processes. As the title implies, this post is about how we built a self-service free trial process using Tines.