The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy
Welcome, interstellar travelers, to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, your improbable companion through the expanding universe of governance, risk, and compliance. In a cosmos where regulations multiply faster than Tribbles, cyber incidents drop like falling whales, and third parties sprout surprises with Vogon-level timing, this podcast is your towel, your Babel Fish, and your improbability drive rolled into one. Each episode, Michael Rasmussen and guests explore the constellation of GRC technology, from digital twins and AI copilots to compliance nebulae and audit wormholes. We chart the domains, decode the jargon, and help you survive vendor poetry that promises everything and delivers nothing. Whether you’re a compliance officer, risk manager, or just someone trying to make sense of improbable business realities, this guide offers clarity, humor, and a reminder of the most important rule of all, don’t panic. End of transmission. Prepare for the next hyperspace jump.
Episodes
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Andreas Schmitz, whose journey through the risk universe began not in a product roadmap, but deep in the practitioner trenches and eventually led him to CRISAM.
They explore what happens when someone who has actually lived with risk frameworks, audits, and regulatory pressure falls in love with a GRC platform because it finally ma...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with MetricStream to trace a long and improbable journey that began in the age of SOX spreadsheets and has evolved into something far more ambitious.
They reflect on MetricStream’s early role in shaping enterprise GRC, how the platform grew alongside regulatory pressure, and why today’s MetricStream is fundamentally not the MetricStr...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Gary Lynam, Managing Director for EMEA at Protecht, to trace the unlikely but influential journey of one of the GRC universe’s quiet constants.
The conversation begins in Australia, a place with an outsized impact on modern risk thinking, exploring how the AS/NZS 4360 Standard laid the groundwork for what would later become ISO 31...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Kyle Martin of NAVEX to chart the company’s long arc, from its early days to the AI-powered, fully connected risk and compliance platform used by organizations across the world today.
They explore how NAVEX has evolved alongside the market, why its integrated approach resonates with customers, and how the company's growth in Europ...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Andrew McIntyre, a veteran explorer of the GRC universe whose career in sales has been shaped by equal parts skill, serendipity, and outright improbability.
Andrew shares how he first found his way into sales, the capabilities that truly matter in a world where relationships carry more weight than pitch decks, and the mindset requ...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by iluminr to confront a hard truth: business continuity is dying, and resilience must take its place. Organizations today aren’t just facing power outages and weather events, they’re also preparing for ransomware, geopolitical escalation, misinformation, deepfakes, and a threat landscape evolving faster than any static plan can keep...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with apexanalytix to chart a course through the sprawling universe of third-party and vendor relationships—where complexity multiplies, risks hide in plain sight, and organizations often panic at the wrong end of the lifecycle.
Unlike many in the space, apexanalytix begins not with risk, but with supplier governance, the foundational...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Cura Software Solutions to explore how a platform that began as a focused risk tool has evolved into a global, end-to-end GRC ecosystem. From enterprise risk to operational resilience, audit, compliance, legal, analytics, and more, Cura now spans an entire constellation of capabilities used by organizations across Africa, the UK...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with the team at Decision Focus to explore why the future of GRC isn’t about more features, it’s about better decisions. They discuss how culture, values, and the people building and using the technology shape outcomes far more than checklists or templates ever could.
The conversation examines how Decision Focus’s platform is designe...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Jason Sechrist of AuditBoard to explore how the company has transformed from an audit tool into one of the most intelligent platforms in the GRC cosmos. They discuss what makes AuditBoard distinctly improbable—a platform that’s as beautiful as it is powerful, blending a clean, intuitive UX with the analytical depth needed to qua...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen connects with the Riskonnect CEO, Jim Wetekamp, to explore how the company is helping organizations see through the code of risk, from insurable exposures and geopolitical volatility to AI-driven analysis and quantified decision-making.
The discussion dives into what Riskonnect delivers across the GRC universe today, what it’s building for tom...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Alex Hollis of SureCloud to discuss how the company is rewriting the rules of digital risk and resilience. SureCloud’s event-sourced architecture captures everything that ever happens in the system (every change, every control, every decision) allowing organizations to recreate their compliance universe at any point in time.
The...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Comply to explore what sets the firm apart in the sprawling universe of financial services compliance. Serving clients across the US, UK, and more than 60 countries, Comply supports firms of every size, from global institutions to boutique shops, with solutions tailored to private funds, broker-dealers, investment banks, and wea...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Steve Scharlman of Archer to chart the platform’s evolution from its early days to its role today as a cornerstone of enterprise risk and compliance. Once a household name for CISOs, Archer has become just as essential for chief risk officers, ethics leaders, and compliance officers navigating an ever more complex universe.
The ...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Renee Murphy, analyst, advisor, and master storyteller, to look back at the origins of the term “GRC” and trace how the technology space has evolved since its early days.
Together they reflect on their parallel paths as analysts shaping the field, sharing what has worked, what hasn’t, and what needs to change. The conversation e...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Workiva to explore what happens when GRC, ESG, and finance finally converge on a single platform. The conversation digs into what Workiva brings to the GRC landscape, where it’s best of breed, and why the interconnectedness of governance, risk, and compliance is critical to making ESG real rather than rhetorical.
We also look at...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen navigates with Corlytics through the ever-expanding cosmos of regulatory change. With 30 million pages of regulatory text published each year, Corlytics combines the precision of AI with the insight of top-tier subject matter experts and data scientists to make sense of the noise and turn regulation into risk intelligence.
The discussion dives...
In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen explores with Corporater why risk cannot exist in isolation from objectives and performance, despite how many organizations and technology providers treat it. Drawing on ISO 31000’s definition of risk as “the effect of uncertainty on objectives,” the conversation dives into why so many platforms reduce objectives to a simple mapping field, mis...
Strap in, interstellar travelers, our first stop in the GRC Technology Galaxy is with CoreStream, a platform that proves configurability doesn’t have to feel like Vogon poetry. Michael Rasmussen chats with the CoreStream crew about how they’ve built a system that adapts to you, delivering value faster than a hyperspace jump.
From rapid implementations that go live in weeks, to deployments both in the cloud and on-premise (making it...
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