What's New | November 2025

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title: "What's New | November 2025" description: "Every month we share new features and modules in Tidal Control to make your compliance journey (even) simpler, more powerful, and more automated." date: "2025-11-15" categories: ["Product update"] imageUrl: "topics/Ster_4.png" imageCredit: "" published: true nrWords: 800 authors: ["Dennis van de Wiel"]

Personnel Module & Onboarding

A central hub for employee compliance

Introducing the Personnel module, consisting of two new pages: Personnel and My Onboarding.

Through the Onboarding page, you are now able to ask employees to read and acknowledge (accept) any policy document.

The Personnel page is where you manage your employees, create a personnel group, and assign policies to be acknowledged by all employees in this group.

The benefits of the Personnel Module are:

• No more asking employees to verify by email and then having to collect and update these emails in Tidal
• New employees will automatically be assigned onboarding tasks
• Assign different policies to different groups of employees. For instance, only asking Developers to acknowledge the "Secure development policy".

You can now also see at a glance which personnel already have access to Tidal. No access? → Invite them directly from the Personnel overview.

Jira Two-Way Integration

Synchronize Tidal Tasks & Issues directly with Jira

You can now send Tidal Tasks and Issues to Jira with a full two-way sync.

How it works:

1. Configure the Jira integration
2. Open a Task or Issue in Tidal
3. Click the link icon
4. A Jira issue is created and linked
5. The Jira icon appears: click it to go directly to Jira

Perfect for teams that use Jira as their primary work platform but leverage Tidal for compliance.

58 New AWS Security Tests

Stronger cloud coverage for ECS, RDS, S3, and more

We have added 58 new AWS tests, aligned with AWS Security Hub controls, to automatically validate the security of your cloud environment.

14 ECS Tests

Including:

• Network mode restrictions
• Privileged container checks
• Read-only root filesystem

28 RDS & Database Tests

Validating, among others:

• Encryption at rest
• Automatic backups
• IAM authentication

16 S3 Tests

Checking, among others:

• Server-side encryption
• Versioning
• Access point configurations

This is a major step forward in AWS cloud security automation from Tidal Control.

Editor Improvements

Sleeker, more navigable documents

Bookmarks & Anchor Links

You can now add bookmarks in a document and link to them with anchors, perfect for longer policy documents.

References to Policy & System Objects

You can now also link to other documents within Tidal:

• Policy documents
• Controls
• Assessments
• Executions
• Issues
• Assets
• Plans

Simply type # + search term.

Other Enhancements

Vendor Tests

Better control of vendor documentation

These new tests now validate:

• Whether all 4 required documents are present
• Whether documents are individually present based on risk assessment

Bulk Risk Appetite Adjustment

Work faster in the Risk overview

You can now adjust risk appetite for multiple risks at once. Select risks → click Risk Appetite → Apply.

Policy Acceptance Validation

Full visibility into employee compliance

A new test now automatically checks whether all required employees have accepted their assigned policy documents.

Stay tuned for the next update end of this month, where we will close out 2025 and provide a sneak peek of next year's roadmap. You won't want to miss it!

For questions, feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or email. We're here to help.

Written by Dennis van de Wiel, Founder