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

⚙️ 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
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⚙️ The Framework Mapping Trap: When Documentation Precedes Reality

⚙️ The Framework Mapping Trap: When Documentation Precedes Reality

Build controls that work, translate to framework language second. Not framework requirements hoping to work. Reality before compliance!

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
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⚙️ Engineer Your GRC Process Before You Automate It

⚙️ 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
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⚙️ The Three Lines of Defence, a systems-thinking approach

⚙️ The Three Lines of Defence, a systems-thinking approach

Why your defence lines need systems thinking and shared intelligence, not just functional independence and isolated processes, a GRC Engineering approach.

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
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⚙️ Why DIY GRC Automation Breaks at Enterprise Scale

⚙️ Why DIY GRC Automation Breaks at Enterprise Scale

Why GRC Engineering principles that work in proof-of-concept fail when evidence collection automation drives your enterprise program scaling

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
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⚙️ GRC Team Topologies: When to Centralise, Distribute, or Build Platform Models

⚙️ GRC Team Topologies: When to Centralise, Distribute, or Build Platform Models

The Decision Framework from 150+ GRC Leader Conversations + Step-by-Step Implementation Roadmap for Building Teams That Scale

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
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⚙️ Building a Central Data Layer: The Foundation of Modern Enterprise GRC

⚙️ Building a Central Data Layer: The Foundation of Modern Enterprise GRC

How to Create a Single Source of Truth That Unifies Your Fragmented GRC Ecosystem

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi
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⚙️ From Silos to Systems: GRC Architecture

⚙️ From Silos to Systems: GRC Architecture

How to Design Information Flows, Establish Unified Language, and Create Team Interfaces Before Automating GRC

Ayoub Fandi
Ayoub Fandi