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⚙️ Your GRC Program Serves the Audit. The Best GRC Engineering Programs Don't.
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering
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💬 Build vs. Buy: We Did Both. Here's What We Learned (RSAC 2026 Talk Summary)
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering
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⚙️ Your Certification Covers 100%. Your Auditor Checked 0.07%.
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture
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📝 State of GRC 2026 Report: Spreadsheets are still #1
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture
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⚙️ How to Stop Making Risk Management a Compliance Control
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
Ayoub Fandi
CorsairCorsair
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🏴‍☠️ Building the GRC Engineering Trust Infrastructure: Introducing Corsair
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering
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⚙️ GRC plays PvE when everyone else in Security plays PvP
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture
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⚙️ Compliance-as-Cope: How GRC Engineering Automated the Wrong Thing
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
Ayoub Fandi
GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering
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⚙️ The 3 Types of Automation in GRC Engineering (pick the right one)
Jan 22, 2026

⚙️ The 3 Types of Automation in GRC Engineering (pick the right one)

Think about your objective determines your automation type. Not what sounds cool or sounds more like GRC Engineering. Outcomes before tools!

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
GRC ArchitectureGRC Architecture
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⚙️ Engineer Your GRC Process Before You Automate It
Jan 15, 2026

⚙️ Engineer Your GRC Process Before You Automate It

Most GRC teams automate broken workflows and wonder why outputs stay broken. GRC Engineering starts with process design, not tools.

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
GRC EngineeringGRC Engineering
🎁 GRC Engineer 2025 Wrapped (+ Shape What's Next)
Dec 24, 2025

🎁 GRC Engineer 2025 Wrapped (+ Shape What's Next)

A year of frameworks, practitioner stories, and community building that moved GRC Engineering from theory to practice. Here's what resonated most—and where we're headed in 2026.

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
Stakeholder ManagementStakeholder Management
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🎴 GRC Engineering Collector Cards: Chief Information Security Officer
Dec 18, 2025

🎴 GRC Engineering Collector Cards: Chief Information Security Officer

The GRC Engineering guide to CISOs: strategic alignment, board communication, synthesizing risk data, and going beyond sales enablement. Moving from audit prep to security strategy.

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
Newsletter trailblazing the GRC Engineering movement, written by Ayoub Fandi, co-author of the canonical GRC Engineering manifesto who defined the field.

GRC Engineer

Newsletter trailblazing the GRC Engineering movement, written by Ayoub Fandi, co-author of the canonical GRC Engineering manifesto who defined the field.

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