Practitioner writing & workflows.
Short articles, longer annotated walkthroughs, and long-form guides on compliance, risk, vendor management, AI in GRC, and audit prep — written from real screens, not slideware.
Connect Microsoft Intune to Talarity — every laptop, every app, every person, in one inventory
Stand up the Intune connector once. Talarity pulls your managed devices, detected software, and directory users into a unified Asset Manager, stamps each row with owner, criticality and lifecycle state, and writes the whole graph to PostgreSQL so your controls, work items, and risks can finally join against real assets.
Stop chasing policies — Talarity tracks every one in two places at once
Upload a policy PDF once. Talarity stores it in the Artifact Repository, registers it in the Policies tab, sets the owner who'll be on the hook for review, and fires reminders 60 / 30 / 14 / 7 days before expiry — to the right people, automatically.
Annual Disaster Recovery testing — end-to-end in Talarity
Build the questionnaire once. Schedule it once. Every year, Talarity fans the test out to your internal owners and external partners, collects evidence, and produces a single auditor-ready attestation report — saved for seven years.
Policy attestation, automated — every employee, every year
Publish the policy once. Send for acknowledgement once. Talarity captures who read it, who didn't, and re-fires every year on cadence — with a per-version proof report saved as an audit-grade artifact.
Why we built Talarity
Compliance was a fire drill we'd run too many times. So we built one platform to replace four — with AI built in, not bolted on, and risk quantified in dollars.
FAIR vs. stoplights: why your CFO doesn't trust your risk register
If your risk reports use red-yellow-green and your CFO still can't act on them, the problem isn't your CFO. Here's the case for quantified risk — in dollars, with confidence intervals.
SOC 2 readiness checklist
A practitioner's guide to getting audit-ready — what to do in months 1, 2, and 3 to land a clean Type I report and set up cleanly for Type II.
Vendor risk operations playbook
An operational playbook for running a TPRM program — tiering, intake, due diligence, contract management, ongoing monitoring, and offboarding. With realistic SLAs and the gotchas nobody documents.
What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule actually requires
Two reporting obligations, one materiality call, and a four-business-day clock. Here's the operational reading of the SEC cyber rule — and the parts most companies are still getting wrong.
FAIR for CISOs: a quick primer
How quantified risk works, why it produces better decisions than stoplight scoring, and how to operationalize it without retraining your whole team.
Continuous compliance is a tooling problem, not a process problem
Every compliance program eventually decides it needs to be 'continuous.' Most then try to fix it with process. The actual fix is upstream — in the tools that make evidence freshness a default, not a sprint.
The vendor questionnaire problem
You send a SIG. They send back a CAIQ. You wanted SOC 2. They want a phone call. Eight weeks later, the deal is stuck. Here's why third-party assessments are broken — and what actually fixes it.
Multi-entity GRC: when subsidiaries become a feature, not a bug
Most GRC tools were built for single companies. The moment you have subsidiaries, divisions, or regional entities, the tooling breaks in predictable ways. Here's the architecture problem — and what fixing it actually requires.