AI has quietly become infrastructure. It is now embedded in how organizations build products, support customers, write code, analyze data, and make decisions. For CISOs, this shift has created a new reality. AI is accelerating the business, but it is also stretching security, risk, and compliance programs beyond what they were designed to handle. Most…
Third-party risk management has always been one of the hardest mandates in GRC. But if you’re running a TPRM program today, the pressure is more acute than ever. Maybe you’re still on spreadsheets and know it’s not sustainable. Maybe you invested in a platform that promised to fix things, but somehow made the work heavier….
We are a quarter into 2026, and a lot has already happened. RSAC just wrapped up. AI governance went from conference panel topic to funded initiative. And the way organizations think about trust is shifting in ways that feel more structural than seasonal. As Ross Haleliuk observed in his RSAC recap, security and GRC leaders are…
TL;DR ISO 27001 controls (Annex A) are security measures (policies, processes, technical controls) used to manage risks and build an ISMS. You don’t implement all controls—you select relevant ones based on your risk assessment and Statement of Applicability (SoA). Controls are grouped into key domains (e.g., access control, cryptography, asset management, incident response, vendor risk)…
A year ago, your vendor risk assessment probably didn’t include a single question about AI. Today, that gap is one of the biggest blind spots in your third-party risk management program. AI is no longer just a tool your employees use internally. It now lives inside your vendor ecosystem, embedded in the SaaS products you…
For most enterprise organizations, the unfortunate reality of audit prep is months of silence followed by an intense scramble to get controls in place and gather evidence. So if your team prepares for audits this way, you’re not alone. It’s not for lack of effort or expertise. The people doing this work, yourself included, know…