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.
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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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