Description: Continuous evidence gathering is no longer the frontier — many GRC programs already automate collection. Yet governance still runs on periodic cycles: evidence pools up for audit while decisions, ownership, and policy lag behind the environment they govern. Collection changed; governance did not. This session puts governance at the center of a continuous control loop — sense, govern, remediate, refine — where live evidence directly drives governance decisions: a real-time posture for leadership, findings owned and driven to verified closure, full-population assurance for auditors, and policy that updates from outcomes. A worked control runs across NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, and COBIT.
Learning Objectives:
- Diagnose where point-in-time, compliance-only evidence introduces sampling risk, stale data, and broken handoffs between governance, risk, audit, and engineering.
- Map a single control finding across multiple frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, and COBIT) and trace it from strategic objective down to live implementation.
- Design a continuous control loop — sense, govern, remediate, refine — that routes each finding to an owner, drives it to verified closure, and feeds the outcome back into policy.
- Define measurable success criteria (mean time to remediate, control coverage, full-population audit readiness) for moving a program from documented to continuously demonstrable.
- Evaluate evidence against admissibility criteria — provenance, freshness, source integrity, and completeness — so only defensible evidence stands behind a risk decision.
Speaker: Prashanth Srinivas Sriraj, CISSP, CISM, CEO and Principal AI & Cybersecurity Architect, Bytoid Inc.
Access until: 12pm CT on 4 February 2027