Security & GRC Decoded
Security & GRC Decoded
Podcast Description
How today’s top organizations navigate the complex world of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).
Security & GRC Decoded brings you actionable strategies, expert insights, and real-world stories that help professionals elevate their security and compliance programs.
Hosted by Raj Krishnamurthy.
It’s for security professionals, compliance teams, and business leaders responsible security GRC and ensuring their organizations’ are safe, secure and adhere to regulatory mandates.
Security & GRC Decoded brings you:
+ Actionable strategies.
+ Expert insights.
+ Real-world stories to elevate your Security GRC programs.
Each episode explores frameworks, risk management strategies, and innovations shaping the future of GRC – from practitioners in the trenches.
Subscribe now to unlock the tools and knowledge you need to succeed.
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The podcast explores vital topics in security governance, risk management, and compliance, with episodes such as Engineering Better Relationships highlighting the engineering perspective in GRC and navigating AI Risks sharing crucial AI security insights, creating a comprehensive approach to modern security strategies
How today’s top organizations navigate the complex world of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Security & GRC Decoded brings you actionable strategies, expert insights, and real-world stories that help professionals elevate their security and compliance programs. Hosted by Raj Krishnamurthy. It’s for security professionals, compliance teams, and business leaders responsible security GRC and ensuring their organizations’ are safe, secure and adhere to regulatory mandates. Security & GRC Decoded brings you: Actionable strategies, expert insights, and real-world stories to elevate your Security GRC programs. Each episode explores frameworks, risk management strategies, and innovations shaping the future of GRC – from practitioners in the trenches. Subscribe now to unlock the tools and knowledge you need to succeed!
Audits are often misunderstood, frequently disliked, and almost always viewed as a necessary evil — but what if that mindset is holding security teams back? In this episode of Security & GRC Decoded, Raj Krishnamurthy sits down with Varun Prasad to unpack what audits are actually designed to do: provide reasonable assurance, not absolute security. Drawing on more than two decades of experience across internal and external audits, Varun explains why “auditable controls” are the missing link between fast-moving engineering teams and slow, annual audit cycles — and how organizations can stop treating audits as an afterthought and start using them as a trust-building mechanism.
Key Takeaways:
- Audits are designed to provide reasonable assurance, not eliminate all risk
- The biggest failure in modern GRC is building controls that are automated but not auditable
- Continuous controls monitoring only works if auditors can validate completeness and accuracy
- Screenshots persist because they remain the clearest way to demonstrate system state over time
- Security controls should be built to improve posture first — and explained clearly second
What You’ll Learn:
- Why audit skepticism is a feature, not a flaw
- How internal and external audits serve fundamentally different purposes
- Where continuous monitoring breaks down from an auditor’s perspective
- What “auditable controls” actually mean in CI/CD environments
- How AI can assist auditors without replacing human judgment
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Connect With Our Guest:
Varun Prasad | Cloud Security & Privacy Assurance | BDO
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunprasad/
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