Resilient Cyber w/ AJ Yawn - Transforming Compliance Through GRC Engineering

30/06/2025 35 min
Resilient Cyber w/ AJ Yawn - Transforming Compliance Through GRC Engineering

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In this episode, we sat down with AJ Yawn, Author of the upcoming book GRC Engineering for AWS and Director of GRC Engineering at Aquia, to discuss how GRC engineering can transform compliance.We discussed the current pain points and challenges in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), how GRC has failed to keep up with software development and the threat landscape, and how to leverage cloud-native services, AI, and automation to bring GRC into the digital era.We dove into:What the phrase “GRC Engineering” means and how it differs from traditional Governance, Risk and ComplianceWhat some of the major issues are with traditional compliance in the age of DevSecOps, Cloud, API’s, Automation and now AISpecific examples of GRC Engineering, including the use of automation, API’s and cloud-native services to streamline security control implementation, assessment and reportingThe promise and potential of AI in GRC, and how AJ is using various models for control assessments, artifact creation and more, and how GRC practitioners should be leveraging AI as a force multiplierAJ’s new book “GRC Engineering For AWS: A Hands-On Guide to Governance, Risk and Compliance Engineering”

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