Tag: Value based GRC

Key takeaways  Introduction: from static snapshot to compliance story  Picture a typical quarterly board pack. The compliance slide shows 98% green, no red flags and no open questions, so the board moves on within a few minutes. Then, months later, a control failure that had in fact been recurring quietly for a year surfaces as a genuine incident, and the first question anyone asks…

Key takeaways  Introduction: when GRC certification becomes destination  At a recent CoreStream GRC webinar on the modern CISO’s compliance stack, the panel was asked a blunt question: are there any regulations, frameworks or certifications that organizations place too much faith in? Tom Cornelius, founder of the Secure Controls Framework and senior partner at ComplianceForge, didn’t hesitate. He named SOC 2 and ISO 27001 directly, and called the market that…

Key takeaways  Introduction: why controls management needs to move beyond activity  Most organizations have controls in place. That is not the hard part.  The harder question is whether those controls are effective, current, owned by the right people, supported by evidence and connected to the risks that matter most. This is the proof burden now sitting behind…

Value-based Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is not about buying an overly complex  platform, copying what a global enterprise does and it is more than penalties avoided or hours saved. For smaller and mid-sized businesses, it is much more straightforward than that. It is about aligning GRC to what matters most, the organization’s strategic goals…