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.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
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.
+ 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.
In this episode, Raj Krishnamurthy sits down with Kieran Pierman, GRC & Security at Whatnot, and a former security, risk and compliance leader at Cruise and Dropbox, to explore fresh perspectives on Security & GRC.
Kieran opens with a bold stance: data breaches, while critical, aren’t the top threat they used to be. Instead, he argues, maintaining availability and service uptime is now paramount. Drawing from his unique experience building the foundational GRC program at Cruise, a pioneering self-driving car company, Kieran reveals how managing cybersecurity risks took on profound urgency—literally life-and-death implications—when securing autonomous vehicles.
Throughout the conversation, Kieran shares actionable insights on:
✅ Why availability and uptime are today’s most critical security priorities.
✅ How building GRC at Cruise required an uncompromising security posture due to the potential consequences of vehicle security breaches.
✅ Why GRC should be seen as an engineering discipline rather than a checkbox function.
✅ Practical strategies to shift GRC from a cost center to a profit-driving role.
✅ The importance of automation, technical fluency, and proactive risk management.
✅ Balancing preventative and detective controls to optimize both security and business agility.
✅ Tips on working effectively with auditors to enhance, rather than hinder, security maturity.
Tune in to learn how adopting a proactive, engineering-minded approach can elevate your GRC program from compliance-driven to business-critical.
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