“It gets me out of the bed in the morning,” Girish Redekar stated, when asked about the most important challenge facing the industry. He believes the current approach, which relies on a “fuzzy” ball of opaque KPIs, fails to show the rest of the business how GRC professionals are “enabling the business” and making it more secure. He stressed the importance of answering key questions: “How do we do against our peers? How do we do as compared to yesterday?” He concluded that while the solution is “near at hand,” it continues to give him “sleepless nights.”
Nick James agreed with this sentiment, drawing a powerful analogy to reinforce the point.
“Someone once asked, why do cars have brakes?” he said. “And the answer is to allow them to go faster.”
This quote, Nick James explained, perfectly sums up the modern GRC function. It’s not about being a roadblock; it’s about providing the confidence, stability, and control that allow an organisation to accelerate its business objectives and pursue new opportunities with greater confidence. GRC builds the guardrails that prevent catastrophe, freeing the rest of the company to innovate and grow without fear.
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