ISACA Webinar—Closing the Loop: Running GRC on Real-Time Data Across Governance, Risk, and Engineeri

When:  Aug 4, 2026 from 11:00 to 12:00 (CT)

ISACA Webinar—Closing the Loop: Running GRC on Real-Time Data Across Governance, Risk, and Engineering

04 August 2026 | 12 pm (ET) / 11 am (CT) / 9 am (PT) / 16 (UTC)
Free for ISACA members and US$75 for non-members. (Not a member? Join now!)
1 FREE CPE FOR MEMBERS

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:

After completing this session, the participant will be able to:

  1. Diagnose where point-in-time, compliance-only evidence introduces sampling risk, stale data, and broken handoffs between governance, risk, audit, and engineering.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Define measurable success criteria (mean time to remediate, control coverage, full-population audit readiness) for moving a program from documented to continuously demonstrable.
  5. Evaluate evidence against admissibility criteria — provenance, freshness, source integrity, and completeness — so only defensible evidence stands behind a risk decision.

Unable to attend? You should still register! Registering gets you access to view this event on-demand until 12 pm CT on 4 February 2027 

Prashanth Srinivas Sriraj, CISSP, CISM
CEO and Principal AI & Cybersecurity Architect
Bytoid Inc.

Prashanth Sriraj is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bytoid and a cybersecurity, AI, and GRC leader with nearly 15 years of experience advising Fortune 500 organizations across banking, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing. A CISSP and CISM, his expertise spans cybersecurity architecture, AI governance, enterprise risk and third-party risk management, cloud security, and technology strategy.

Over his career, Prashanth has established enterprise security architecture functions, led large-scale GRC transformation initiatives, advised executive leadership and CISOs, and enabled the secure adoption of AI within highly regulated environments. He contributed to the ISACA CISM Review Manual (2021) and was selected among the top 200 leaders enterprise-wide for the Cognizant–Cornell Leadership Accelerator Program. Prashanth is passionate about operationalizing GRC through automation and real-time data, transforming governance from periodic compliance exercises into continuous, intelligence-driven assurance.

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