GRCOPILOT Insights

Insights, guidance and product updates on cybersecurity, GRC and compliance.

Access control policy template: the sections auditors actually test
Templates

Access control policy template: the sections auditors actually test

Access control is the most sampled area in every audit. What the policy must state to be testable, the decisions it has to settle, and the clauses that make review evidence possible.
Mobile and BYOD security checklist
Checklists

Mobile and BYOD security checklist

Phones hold mail, chat, MFA tokens and documents, and travel everywhere. A practical checklist for corporate and personal devices, including what you can and cannot do on a device you do not own.
Security debt: managing a backlog you will never finish
GRC Fundamentals

Security debt: managing a backlog you will never finish

Every organisation carries more findings than it can fix. Pretending otherwise produces a backlog that grows, ages and eventually gets ignored wholesale. How to run it honestly.
Purple teaming: testing whether your detections actually fire
Audit

Purple teaming: testing whether your detections actually fire

A red team tells you that you were beaten. A purple team tells you exactly which detection failed and why. The cheaper, more repeatable exercise most organisations should be running instead.
Deepfakes and voice cloning: verification processes that survive them
AI & Automation

Deepfakes and voice cloning: verification processes that survive them

Synthetic voice and video have made impersonation cheap and convincing. The defence is not detection technology - it is verification processes that do not depend on recognising a person.
Data loss prevention: why most deployments end in monitoring mode forever
Security Practices

Data loss prevention: why most deployments end in monitoring mode forever

DLP promises to stop data leaving and usually delivers an alert queue nobody reads. What it can genuinely do, why blocking is so rarely enabled, and how to get value without the theatre.
Cloud permission sprawl: the identities nobody is reviewing
Security Practices

Cloud permission sprawl: the identities nobody is reviewing

Cloud estates accumulate thousands of roles and machine identities that quietly outnumber humans. Why access reviews miss them entirely, and how to cut effective permissions without breaking production.
Threat intelligence: turning feeds into decisions
Security Practices

Threat intelligence: turning feeds into decisions

Most threat intelligence programmes buy feeds, ingest indicators and change nothing. What intelligence is actually for, the three levels worth distinguishing, and how to tell whether yours is working.
DDoS resilience: the attack you cannot patch your way out of
Security Practices

DDoS resilience: the attack you cannot patch your way out of

Volumetric floods are largely a solved commercial problem. Application-layer attacks that look like real traffic are not. What actually keeps a service up, and why the expensive failure is usually your own origin.
Build a SOC or buy MDR? The honest comparison
Buyer Guides

Build a SOC or buy MDR? The honest comparison

Round-the-clock detection needs roughly eight to ten analysts, which most organisations cannot justify. What outsourcing genuinely gives you, what it cannot, and the hybrid most teams end up with.
Phishing defence beyond awareness training
Security Practices

Phishing defence beyond awareness training

Blaming users for clicking is a strategy that has failed for two decades. What actually reduces phishing risk: technical controls that stop delivery, a reporting path people use, and processes that survive a successful click.
MFA bypass and session token theft: why “we have MFA” is no longer the answer
Security Practices

MFA bypass and session token theft: why “we have MFA” is no longer the answer

Adversary-in-the-middle phishing kits steal the session, not the password - so MFA completes normally and the attacker inherits the authenticated session. What actually stops it.
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