GRC Engineer

Where systems thinking meets legacy GRC

⚙️ GRC Teams Are Getting More Capable Than Ever But The Shape Looks Different.

Why the future GRC team looks more like a basketball team than a football team, what that means for ICs and managers, and how to position yourself for either path.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture

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Apr 06, 2026

⚙️ Your GRC Program Serves the Audit. The Best GRC Engineering Programs Don't.

How the discipline collapsed into evidence collection, what enterprise GRC teams I know actually focus on, and why the audit should be a translation layer, not the foundation it's built on.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering

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Mar 30, 2026

💬 Build vs. Buy: We Did Both. Here's What We Learned (RSAC 2026 Talk Summary)

We cycled through four GRC tools in four years before we built our own. The exercises that made us better builders are the same ones that make you a better buyer.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering

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Mar 24, 2026

⚙️ Your Certification Covers 100%. Your Auditor Checked 0.07%.

The math behind compliance assurance does not work the way you think it does. Why moving at agentic speed means rebuilding the primitives of what GRC Engineering has to cover.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture

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Mar 16, 2026

📝 State of GRC 2026 Report: Spreadsheets are still #1

The data, the patterns, and the gaps nobody's talking about. Everything you need to understand where GRC stands today through the largest independent practitioner survey ever conducted.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture

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Mar 09, 2026

⚙️ How to Stop Making Risk Management a Compliance Control

Most risk programs exist because an auditor asked for one. Here are five signs yours is a compliance control, not actual risk management, and the fix.

Ayoub Fandi

Mar 02, 2026

⚙️ New to GRC Engineering? Start Here.

The ideas, the pillars, and the resources to go further. Everything you need to understand why GRC can be better than it is today through the GRC Engineering revolution.

Ayoub Fandi

CorsairCorsair

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Feb 23, 2026

🏴‍☠️ Building the GRC Engineering Trust Infrastructure: Introducing Corsair

A GRC Engineering-native answer to the trust and compliance exchange challenges. Open-source and free to sign. Assurance through cryptography instead of PDFs.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering

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Feb 16, 2026

⚙️ GRC plays PvE when everyone else in Security plays PvP

GRC has the budget, the executive access, and the cross-functional visibility. It uses all of it to farm faster instead of leading the team to victory.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture

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Feb 09, 2026

⚙️ Compliance-as-Cope: How GRC Engineering Automated the Wrong Thing

As a GRC industry, we leveraged APIs and scripting to spark what became a revolution. We followed the path of least resistance. Here's why GRC Engineering is risking becoming shelfware.

Ayoub Fandi

GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture

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