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  • Digital Risk and Resilience: Orchestrating for Digital Trust

    Digital Risk and Resilience: Orchestrating for Digital Trust

    Inevitability of Failure: the Digital EcoSystem of Business Every organization today is defined by the digital fabric and architecture in which its operations relies upon. This fabric is sprawling, complex,… Continue reading Digital Risk and Resilience: Orchestrating for Digital Trust

  • Why GRC is NOW or Never For Aspirational Organizations

    Why GRC is NOW or Never For Aspirational Organizations

    There comes a point in every organization’s journey when it must choose whether it is going to lead or follow — whether it will proactively shape its future or continually… Continue reading Why GRC is NOW or Never For Aspirational Organizations

  • GPRC for Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Management

    GPRC for Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Management

    Command and Control on the Bridge of the Enterprise with GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate “Captain, sensors are detecting increased fluctuations in the warp field. I recommend we adjust our… Continue reading GPRC for Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Management

  • GRC Engineering: From After-the-Fact Verification to Engineered Assurance

    GRC Engineering: From After-the-Fact Verification to Engineered Assurance

    Featuring my collected insights combined with thoughts from the most recent Risk Is Our Business Podcast with Ayoub Fandi, Security Assurance Automation Team Lead at GitLab and founder of the… Continue reading GRC Engineering: From After-the-Fact Verification to Engineered Assurance

  • Operational Resilience as a Strategic Imperative: Navigating DORA, UK, CPS 230, and Beyond

    Operational Resilience as a Strategic Imperative: Navigating DORA, UK, CPS 230, and Beyond

    In today’s interconnected and fast-moving environment, organizations face an array of disruptions that threaten their ability to deliver critical products and services. Cyberattacks, technology failures, supply chain breakdowns, and geopolitical… Continue reading Operational Resilience as a Strategic Imperative: Navigating DORA, UK, CPS 230, and Beyond

  • Don’t Panic: Specialized GRC Domains in the GRC Galaxy

    Don’t Panic: Specialized GRC Domains in the GRC Galaxy

    In the ever-expanding GRC Technology Galaxy, organizations are not cruising through empty space. They are dodging regulatory meteors, navigating gravitational pulls of risk, and occasionally sucked into black holes of failed… Continue reading Don’t Panic: Specialized GRC Domains in the GRC Galaxy

  • Third-Party GRC (Risk) Management Illustrated: Governing the Extended Enterprise with Clarity and Control

    Third-Party GRC (Risk) Management Illustrated: Governing the Extended Enterprise with Clarity and Control

    The OCEG GRC Illustrations are visual, educational resources designed to clearly communicate complex governance, risk management, and compliance concepts in an accessible and engaging way. Within this library, the GRC Technology Illustrated Series focuses… Continue reading Third-Party GRC (Risk) Management Illustrated: Governing the Extended Enterprise with Clarity and Control

  • CAPTAIN’s LOG: Risk Management Failure, Correcting Course

    CAPTAIN’s LOG: Risk Management Failure, Correcting Course

    Lessons in Risk Management from the First 20 Episodes of Risk Is Our Business “Risk isn’t the enemy. It’s the mission.”— Risk Is Our Business Podcast Over the course of its first… Continue reading CAPTAIN’s LOG: Risk Management Failure, Correcting Course

  • Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy

    Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy

    In the vast and often absurd cosmos of modern business, organizations are rocketing through space with one hand on the controls and the other gripping a towel — buffeted by… Continue reading Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy

  • Breaking the Mold: Announcing the Winners of the 2025 GRC Innovation Awards

    Breaking the Mold: Announcing the Winners of the 2025 GRC Innovation Awards

    Recognizing those who dare to rethink Governance, Risk Management & Compliance “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius –… Continue reading Breaking the Mold: Announcing the Winners of the 2025 GRC Innovation Awards

  • From Gandalf the Grey to White: The Transformation of Cybersecurity into Digital Risk, Resilience, and Trust

    From Gandalf the Grey to White: The Transformation of Cybersecurity into Digital Risk, Resilience, and Trust

    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring In the epic arc of J.R.R.… Continue reading From Gandalf the Grey to White: The Transformation of Cybersecurity into Digital Risk, Resilience, and Trust

  • GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate: Agentic AI and the Autonomous Force Behind Risk, Integrity, and Objectives

    GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate: Agentic AI and the Autonomous Force Behind Risk, Integrity, and Objectives

    Part 3 in the GRC Orchestrate Series The future of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) is not just digital: it is autonomous, intelligent, and orchestrated. In the first article… Continue reading GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate: Agentic AI and the Autonomous Force Behind Risk, Integrity, and Objectives