🎧 The mindset shift that changes every board conversation. Alyssa Miller, CISO and Board Advisor, on why the best security leaders stop seeing themselves as the cybersecurity expert in the C-suite, and start showing up as business executives who happen to specialize in security. Full episode and the free board reporting template: hubs.ly/Q04BCvMK0 #StrategicCISO #CISO #cybersecurity

🎧 It’s live. The first episode of the Strategic CISOs podcast is here! Alyssa Miller, CISO and Board Advisor, joins Sravish Sridhar to discuss what boards really want from security and the foundational steps to communicate effectively: 1. Lead as a business executive who happens to specialize in security 2. Tie your program to business objectives 3. Report resilience in terms a board can act on 4. Make the business case for what’s next Watch, listen, and grab the free board reporting template: hubs.ly/Q04BCmCs0 #StrategicCISO #CISO #cybersecurity #GRC

🎧 It’s official: Strategic CISOs is now a podcast. Real conversations with the leaders redefining the CISO role. Candid talk on cyber risk, board-ready reporting, and running GRC so it drives the business instead of chasing it. The first guest: Alyssa Miller, CISO and Board Advisor, and a lifelong hacker turned security executive. She joins host Sravish Sridhar to unpack how CISOs actually earn the boardroom and lead as business executives who happen to specialize in security. The first episode drops October 20th. Stay tuned! 👀 #StrategicCISO #CISO #cybersecurity #GRC

"We use AI too." You will hear it from every GRC vendor this year. Our CPO Tejas Ranade lays out the four questions that separate an AI you can put in front of an auditor from one that just drafts faster: - Does it see and understand my data? - Does it make things up? - Does it follow my rules? - Can it prove ROI? The full comparison from TrustCloud, plus a checklist you can take into your next vendor demo: hubs.ly/Q04B62Wt0 #GRC #AIGovernance #CISO

🆕📋 NEW RESOURCE for security leaders. For years, GRC ran on a once-a-year rhythm: collect the evidence, answer the questionnaire, produce the certificate, move on. But every new AI agent, integration, and vendor widens your risk surface faster than an annual review can keep up. In our Strategic CISOs series, five security leaders showed us how they run things differently, and how they turned real constraints into a business advantage: → Dave Brown (Andesite) runs security as a profit center → Myke Lyons and Jon Zayicek (Cribl) replaced questionnaires with evidence → Lori Kevin (IMO Health) built a security culture across the whole company → Matthew Martin (Western Carolina University) leads with creativity within constraints We pulled their lessons into one playbook: five moves that define a strategic CISO. Now available to read → hubs.ly/Q04yxv4N0 #CISO #StrategicCISO #GRC #cybersecurity

AI is already in the business. Now the board wants proof it’s under control. In an SC Media article, TrustCloud CEO Sravish Sridhar breaks down four questions CISOs should be ready to answer: Is AI creating new security risk? Are we meeting our AI compliance obligations? Who is accountable? And can we prove it? The common thread: evidence, not assumptions. Read the full article to see why continuous verification is becoming essential in the age of AI. #AI #ConMon #Trust

Traditional TPRM gives you a point-in-time snapshot of the vendor you asked — and zero visibility into the ecosystem behind them. Every vendor has vendors. Every one of those has vendors too. None of them fill out questionnaires. They just create breaches. TrustLens replaces manual, task-driven assessments with continuous, data-driven monitoring that follows the chain — because the risk you didn't look at doesn't stop at one degree of separation. See how TrustCloud addresses this with Agentic, Data-Driven Third-Party Cyber Assessments: hubs.ly/Q04ybnCC0

A clean IRM report and real risk are not always the same thing. IRM assesses on a schedule and reasons from a sample, so four structural gaps sit inside most programs. Our CPO Tejas Ranade turned them into a buyer's checklist you can run against your own program: - Can you prove coverage, or only a sample? - How fast can you get to continuous coverage? - Which control types can you actually test? - Can you tie a finding to what it would cost the business? TrustCloud adds a continuous assurance layer on top of your IRM, so a clean report finally means what the board assumes it means. Read it here: hubs.ly/Q04xJK770 #GRC #CISO #ContinuousControlMonitoring #ServiceNow #IRM #ConMon

"GRC transformation" is one of those phrases that's everywhere right now and means almost nothing until someone pins it down. So Richa Tiwari, our Director of Solution Engineering, did. The short version: it isn't a tooling upgrade. It's a change in what you're being asked to prove. The old question was whether the work got done by audit time. The new one is whether risk is understood and your controls are working right now. Here's a test you can actually use. Can your team answer "are we compliant right now?" without a fire drill? Does a failing control show up as an alert in days, or as a surprise at the next audit? Does your board report start from business objectives, or from a count of controls? Richa breaks down what the term actually means, and how to tell whether your own program is getting there.  hubs.ly/Q04x7KxK0 #GRC #GRCTransformation #Enterprise #CISO

Some of the best moments at work happen beyond the screen. Recently, teammates from across continents met in Boston. Different time zones, one shared purpose, and countless great conversations. Here's to the people who make remote work feel anything but distant. #RemoteCulture #Culture #TrustCloud

Most security teams can only truly assess a fraction of their vendors, leaving risk hiding in plain sight. The constraint has always been people. You can't hire enough analysts to read every control for every vendor, every time something changes. So programs default to the questionnaire and hope. AI changes the math. It completes most of the assessment workflow, which means coverage no longer competes with depth. Your team focuses on the gaps that matter, and every critical vendor gets real scrutiny instead of a checkbox. New on the blog: why security questionnaires can't measure vendor risk. hubs.ly/Q04wRmlc0 #TPRM #GRC #SecurityAssurance #TrustCloud

Looking forward to a great couple of days at ISACA Silicon Valley Annual Conference 2026! Our CPO, Tejas Ranade, takes the stage on Friday to talk “No-Hype AI for Cyber GRC Practitioners” — a practical look at what AI can really do for GRC today. Santa Clara Convention Center Friday, August 28 | 3:05 PM PT If you’re at the conference, hit Tejas up, say hello, and talk all things AI + GRC. #ISACA #CyberGRC #GRC #AI #TrustCloud

451 Research (S&P Global) recently initiated coverage of the move to continuous cyber risk assurance. To put it in enterprise terms, our CPO Tejas Ranade breaks down three shortcomings of legacy GRC, and what security teams can rely on instead.  Read it: hubs.ly/Q04v8FX70 #CyberRiskAssurance #CISO #GRC

In his new SecurityWeek column, our CEO @sravish makes the case that CISOs get hired for one skill set and judged on another. Recruited for technical depth. Evaluated on cost, growth, and trust. No wonder CISO tenure is the shortest in the C-suite. His take: security isn't overhead anymore. McKinsey found it's now the #1 reason enterprise buyers switch vendors — ahead of price and features. Yet most companies still bury security review at the end of the sales cycle. A speed bump, not a selling point. The best CISOs flip this. Sales calls, not just audits. Same-day security reviews, not week-long ones. Numbers a CFO tracks — "deals unblocked," not "attacks blocked." The right question isn't "did anything go wrong?" It's "how is security helping us grow?" Read the full article by Sravish in SecurityWeek: hubs.ly/Q04t_GKS0 #CISO #Cybersecurity #SecurityLeadership

Why do we still use a partial picture, refreshed a few times a year, to decide whether an organization and its vendors can be trusted? That was the question Sravish Sridhar put to public-sector leaders at the FRC Erie Summit last month, now recapped on FRC's blog. He explained a simple framework: ACT. Automation Continuous monitoring Transparency In short: stop sampling risk a few times a year. Prove it continuously. Read FRC's recap: From Check-the-Box to Continuous Assurance: TrustCloud’s Vision for AI-Powered GRC and TPRM (hubs.ly/Q04tJ3ss0) #GRC #FRC #TPRM #CISO #TrustCloud

Cyber Risk Assurance isn't a better GRC tool. It’s what makes it do what you need. GRC proves your controls worked on audit day. Assurance proves they're working continuously, across 1st- and 3rd-party risk. Point-in-time is over. 451 Research (S&P Global) just called it: hubs.ly/Q04tx69N0 #CyberRiskAssurance #CISO #ContinuousControlMonitoring #ConMon

What does continuous control monitoring look like when it actually scales with ServiceNow IRM? Not another dashboard. A control fails. The finding lands in ServiceNow IRM with evidence and traceability. The technical owner gets the remediation work in the system where they already operate. New evidence flows back into the control environment and is tested again. That closed loop is what turns continuous control monitoring from a demo into infrastructure. And the outcomes look very different: • Control failure to finding in under 24 hours • Mean time to risk remediation from six months to eighteen hours • Crown-jewel application monitoring from roughly 20% to 96% • Application assessments from 20 per year to 200–300 per week, with the same team and budget The key is changing what a test costs to create and connecting structured and unstructured enterprise data to ServiceNow IRM. ServiceNow IRM is where the signal lands. The work underneath determines whether continuous control monitoring can scale. Read more on moving from demo to production: hubs.ly/Q04tqdzy0 #ConMon #ServiceNow #IRM #Atlassian

“Were we compliant last quarter?” is the wrong question. By the time you answer it, the vendor has changed, the cloud config has drifted, and the AI model isn't behaving like it did at audit time. The real question is: are we compliant right now? That's the difference continuous assurance makes.  Read part 2 of our series by Richa Tiwari: what continuous assurance actually looks like, and how it closes the gap Part 1 exposed. hubs.ly/Q04sB5H80 #GRC #CISO #SecurityAssurance #ContinuousMonitoring

Continuous control monitoring is a phased build, not a rip-and-replace project. Integrate your existing stack, map and prioritize your controls, then switch on live monitoring. A focused team can stand up a working system in about 30 days. Our new practitioner guide walks through exactly how, phase by phase, including what to monitor first. Read it here: hubs.ly/Q04sB0Kj0 #CISO #GRC #TrustCloud

Heading to Black Hat USA 2026? Join Eric Valenti, Enterprise Account Executive at TrustCloud, in Las Vegas on Monday, August 4. If you're evaluating ways to: - Accelerate customer security reviews - Reduce questionnaire fatigue - Streamline TPRA workflows - Move toward continuous assurance let's connect. Reserve a time that works for you: hubs.ly/Q04rjnbx0 See you at Mandalay Bay. #BlackHatUSA #BHUSA #Cybersecurity #GRC #TPRA #EnterpriseSecurity