Nashville GRC Conference and RSA Archer Summit

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Carmelo

IIA ISACA GRC

I was stationed in Millington, TN back in 1992 for Ordnance school and never made it over to Nashville. My buddies and I back in those days, were city boys and thought very little about Country music so we never thought it would be worth the effort or the spend to make it over to Nashville. As I’ve grown and had experiences in life, I have learned to appreciate all sorts of music, Country music included. Nashville is very much what I thought it would be back in the early 90s. The IIA ISACA GRC conference was very well communicated and it was easy to know what I needed and where I needed to be. The opening Keynote jumped from a fun discussion on GRC in general and every attendees role, to a really good presentation on Disruption by Luke Williams who happened to need audience participation and call on me! to answer a few simple questions. All the presentations, to my surprise, really proved that the way I conduct business in the GRC space is a leading practice and that we are doing things right and though I didn’t survey the crowd officially, it was observable that we may be more mature in our GRC than most. My highlight of the GRC conference is surprising my old boss, Lynn hired me to work where I still work today. I got up on stage with her and gave her a hug! We didn’t get to talk much, right after her talk she got surrounded by attendees.

RSA Archer Summit 2018

I had to dig up old emails to figure out where to go and what to do for the RSA Archer Summit, but once I got to the conference it was a little bit easier to get my registration badge and stuff. The opening keynote started off with the Water Coolers with a hilariously fun musical number on Risk Management Heroes!
There is always a legal disclaimer regarding some of the offerings that don’t promise delivery and may be subject to changes prior to deployment, but some of the things I’m really excited about are:
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Third Party Portal
  • Data Gateway
  • Approval by email
  • Tablet/Mobile Apps & Access
  • Report Objects
  • Benchmarking against Industry Averages
As a risk expert at my company and as the Archer lead, there is so much we can do to make our service offering better than it already is, and make our GRC program even more mature and user friendly. I got to meet up with my friend Jack for our annual selfie!
Apart from being able to learn a lot, and rub elbows with peers in the industry, I also got to see Mike, who I served in the Marine Corps with, we last met up at a reunion 10 years ago.
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