Rethinking GRC: Orgs Trade in Checklists for Real-Time Context

Cyber Posture's Sudhakar Vishnubhotla Discusses State of GRC Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • January 1, 2026

Organizations are rethinking governance, risk and compliance, replacing checklist-backed tools and processes with context-aware, risk intelligence platforms designed to measure threats in real time.

Sudhakar Vishnubhotla, CEO and CISO at Cyber Posture, said longstanding GRC platforms rely on static controls and compliance templates that don't align with an organization's actual operation or regular functions. The better approach focuses on building risk assessments around an organization's stack, creating an automated model that changes with its environment, Vishnubhotla said.

"Today's modern compliance tools … all they do is have a checklist. To understand what the technical stack of the organization is, make everything customized right from the get go. You avoid the consultants upfront. And at the same time, you're looking at building a context-aware GRC tool," he said.

In this video interview ...