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Beyond the compliance checklist: Risk-driven cyber GRC

Develop a customized, risk-driven cyber GRC strategy that goes beyond basic compliance to align with your unique risk profile and strategic goals.

Beyond the compliance checklist: Risk-driven cyber GRC

Description

Compliance frameworks provide a valuable foundation, but to truly optimize your organization’s risk management, it's essential to go beyond the standard checklist that doesn’t account for your organization’s unique risk exposure, risk appetite, or strategic goals. To drive sustainable growth, you must develop a tailored governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program.
This session will explore how to create a risk-driven GRC strategy that becomes a true growth catalyst. We’ll discuss the importance of deeply understanding your business, market dynamics, and strategy to build a GRC framework that not only addresses compliance but also aligns with your long-term goals.
We'll also examine how security management tools can enhance both compliance and overall cyber risk management. As the cyber threat landscape continues to change, cyber GRC must evolve to stay ahead of emerging risks and ensure organizational resilience.

About the speakers

Aaron Strong

Aaron Strong is an accomplished GRC Analyst and holds a master’s in Cybersecurity specializing in Cyber Intelligence. His mission is to make the world a safer place by providing individuals and businesses with the necessary practices and knowledge to protect themselves from, well, themselves.

Aaron’s unique career path has endowed him with an unconventional set of skills that challenges the notion that a “traditional” IT or cyber background is a prerequisite for success in the field.

Adrienne Allen

Adrienne Allen is a global security GRC and privacy leader with 18+ years of experience in information security strategy who is passionate about building security and privacy into all financial ecosystems. She leads Coinbase’s security GRC and privacy operations teams.

Adrienne excels in the fast-moving, ever-changing world of fintech and is driven by the intellectual challenge that comes with working in groundbreaking areas of security, including cryptocurrency and blockchain.

A trusted expert in privacy, security, compliance, and data governance issues, she is a mission-driven business leader with a technical background and vast experience with federal and heavily regulated clients. Collaborative and convincing, she is adept at engaging directly to build business cases for security, close trust gaps, distill complex technical concepts for a variety of audiences, and align people behind approaches to manage risk and drive action.

Darrin Reynolds

Darrin Reynolds is a distinguished cybersecurity, privacy, and data governance leader with an extensive track record of creating and managing global security strategies for multi-billion-dollar Fortune 500 projects. Over his career, Darrin has driven critical security incident responses across North America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, with a keen focus on prioritizing people over technology. His expertise and enthusiasm for bringing value to growth-oriented companies have made him a recognized industry thought leader and invaluable asset to organizations around the world.

Mandy Lit

Mandy Lit is a global privacy and compliance professional with expertise in U.S., Canadian, and EU/UK privacy laws, specializing in healthcare, pharma, adtech, fintech, high-security government, high-growth tech, and more.

With extensive experience applying industry frameworks like NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, ISO 27001, emerging U.S. state laws, and AI governance, she collaborates with legal, product, commercial, and executive teams to ensure compliance is operationalized effectively.

She specializes in privacy policy development, risk management, compliance, and AI governance, with a focus on high-growth tech companies and Fortune 500 enterprises.

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