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This month’s release introduces powerful enhancements that streamline how teams manage data, collaborate, and scale their work in SmartSuite. From more flexible record views and improved permissions to smarter automations and solution packaging, these updates are designed to reduce friction and elevate everyday workflows.
For the first time in my 25-year journey across cybersecurity, risk, compliance, audit, and operational resilience, from building early cyber practices at EY, to launching ArcherIRM during the formative years of GRC, to watching global institutions evolve through SmartSuite, I witnessed something I have rarely seen at this scale.
SmartSuite CEO Jon Darbyshire explains how GRC, cybersecurity, and resilience are converging, and why frameworks like the CRI Profile are accelerating a new era of connected risk management.
Automation made GRC faster. AI will make it smarter. Jon Darbyshire explores how augmentation, not automation, defines the future of intelligent, connected risk management.
After 25 years in GRC, SmartSuite CEO Jon Darbyshire has never seen momentum like the Cyber Risk Institute’s CRI Profile is generating. In this article, he shares firsthand observations from the Austin conference, and why the CRI Profile marks a turning point in how financial institutions measure, manage, and communicate cyber risk.
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