ApproveThis manages your Secureframe Integration approvals.

When Compliance Meets Common Sense

Let’s be real – compliance workflows suck. You’ve got security teams drowning in Jira tickets, legal departments forwarding PDFs through six email chains, and everyone waiting on that one VP who’s always hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. ApproveThis and Secureframe fix this by doing something revolutionary: making approval processes actually work like they’re supposed to.

Secureframe keeps your compliance house in order. ApproveThis kicks doors down to get decisions made. Connect them through Zapier, and you’ve got a system where security requests get reviewed fast enough to actually matter. No more compliance theater – just actual progress that auditors can see and employees don’t hate.

Why This Combo Works for Grown-Up Companies

Companies between 50-5,000 employees hit the same wall: compliance becomes a bottleneck right when customers start demanding SOC 2 reports during sales calls. You need two things – structure (that’s Secureframe) and speed (that’s ApproveThis). Together, they handle the “what” and the “who”:

Secureframe maps out what needs approval – new vendor integrations, access control changes, trust center updates. ApproveThis handles who approves it, when, and how – with reminders, escalations, and audit trails. Connect them, and you’ve turned compliance from a quarterly scramble into a daily habit.

Real Uses for Real Companies (Not Just Theory)

1. Trust Center Requests That Don’t Die in Slack

A sales engineer at a 200-person SaaS company gets a prospect asking about penetration testing results. They submit a Trust Center request in Secureframe. Normally, this would ping-pong between Legal and Security for days. With the integration:

- Secureframe triggers an ApproveThis workflow the second the request lands
- Legal gets an email to approve boilerplate language
- Security reviews actual test results in the same thread
- Once both greenlight it, Secureframe auto-updates the Trust Center

Who cares? Sales teams closing enterprise deals faster. Legal avoiding last-minute fire drills. Everyone else avoiding 4 PM “status update” meetings.

2. Killing Zombie Integration Connections

An e-commerce company uses 20+ third-party tools. Every time they disable a vendor in Secureframe, ApproveThis automatically archives the connection. No more “Wait, is this still active?” during audits. Finance teams sleep better knowing there’s no ghost subscriptions draining budgets.

3. Approval Chains That Actually Chain

A healthcare startup needs five sign-offs for new API integrations. ApproveThis routes requests sequentially: DevOps → Security → Compliance → CTO. If the CTO’s OOO, it jumps to their delegate. Each approval updates Secureframe in real time, keeping everyone aligned without status calls.

Setup That Doesn’t Need a PhD

Connect ApproveThis + Secureframe in three steps even your non-techy compliance officer can handle:

Step 1: Create a Zapier account (if you don’t have one)
Step 2: Pick a trigger – like “New Trust Center Request” in Secureframe
Step 3: Set the action to “Create Request” in ApproveThis

Map these fields:
- Secureframe’s Request ID → ApproveThis Reference ID
- Request Type → ApprovalThis Category
- Deadline → ApproveThis’s SLA Field

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis’s calculated fields to auto-set deadlines based on request severity. Critical issue? 24-hour SLA. Routine update? 5 business days. No more manual guesswork.

Why Your Teams Will Actually Use This

Security Teams:

Stop being the bottleneck. Set approval thresholds in ApproveThis so only high-risk items hit your queue. $50K+ contract? You review it. $200 SSL fee? Auto-approved. Secureframe logs it all for audits either way.

External Auditors:

They get a single dashboard showing who approved what, when, and why. No more digging through email archives or pestering your CISO.

Finance:

ApproveThis’s real-time tracking means no more surprise invoices. Every vendor request ties back to a Secureframe record with dates, approvers, and contract terms.

The Nuts and Bolts You Care About

No License Headaches

External clients or contractors approving stuff? They don’t need a Secureframe login. ApproveThis sends them email links that work like a Google Doc – review, comment, approve. Done. (Yes, Secureframe still needs licenses for your team. No, you don’t have to buy 500 extras.)

Vacation Mode Isn’t Just for Instagram

ApproveThis auto-reassigns approvals if someone’s OOO. Legal lead on PTO? Requests route to their deputy without missing SLAs. Secureframe still tracks the change for compliance.

Two-Way Street

Approvals in ApproveThis update Secureframe records, and Secureframe triggers can kick off approvals. It’s not just a one-time sync – it’s a live conversation between systems.

When to Use This (And When Not To)

Do this if:
- You’re chasing SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA compliance
- Vendor approvals involve 3+ departments
- Audits take longer than the actual work
- You’ve had a security incident caused by “I thought they approved it!”

Skip this if:
- Your compliance process fits on a Post-It note
- You enjoy explaining request statuses in all-hands meetings
- Your legal team loves getting 3 AM Slack pings

Bottom Line: Compliance That Doesn’t Slow You Down

ApproveThis + Secureframe isn’t about adding more process. It’s about making existing workflows actually visible – and fixable. When every approval step is tracked in both systems, you can spot bottlenecks (why do 40% of requests stall at Legal?), automate low-risk approvals, and prove compliance without hiring a documentation army.

Ready to stop being the department that says “no” all the time? Get ApproveThis, connect it to Secureframe, and start saying “yes” faster.