Infosecurity Europe 2025: 3 Must-Know GRC Challenges And How To Solve Them

Infosecurity Europe
2025 marked the event’s 30th anniversary and brought together some of the brightest voices in cybersecurity, compliance, and risk. It was a great moment for SureCloud to share the new ways we are supporting organisations in their journey toa smarter, more connected approach to GRC. 

This year’s agenda covered some of the most pressing topics in the industry, including AI security governance, the geopolitical impact of cyber threats, and how to stay in control of risk in an increasingly unpredictable world. 

We had the chance to connect with GRC professionals from a range of industries, including retail, finance, and the public sector. Alongside showcasing our platform (and hosting a bit of fun with our prize draws), we spoke with risk, compliance, and security leaders about the real-world challenges they’re facing. Those discussions surfaced three recurring themes as key insights we’re taking away from this year’s event:  

• How to get started with GRC as a small or scaling team 
• Proving the value of GRC technology to the wider business 
• Moving beyond legacy tools to modern and integrated platforms 

Across hundreds of conversations with compliance officers, cybersecurity leaders, and risk professionals, three recurring themes stood out, reflecting the key challenges that organisations face with their approach to GRC. 

1. Getting started with GRC as a growing team

For many small or fast-growing organisations, stepping into the world of GRC can feel overwhelming, especially when you're moving away from spreadsheets and manual processes towards a more formal, proactive approach.  

We spoke with early-stage practitioners and leaders who were looking for a simple, scalable way to build their GRC strategy without adding unnecessary complexity.

That’s exactly why we created Foundations: an effortless starting point built specifically for teams at the beginning of their GRC journey.  

This platform delivers compliance at your fingertips, offering ready-to-use frameworks, simplified assessments and guided controls that let you take control of your accreditation, achieving standards like ISO 27001 and SOC2 with more collaboration, and less specialist knowledge.  

2. Proving the Value of GRC Investment

GRC leaders continue to face the challenge of demonstrating ROI and showing how the GRC technology supports the business. Across conversations, we heard a growing need for clearer performance metrics, better reporting, and stronger alignment between GRC outcomes and business goals.

We discussed this with Michael Rasmussen during our webinar “Measuring the Value of GRC Technology: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Resilience, and Agility”, where Michael broke GRC solutions down into four essentials: efficiency, effectiveness, resilience, and agility. Together, they help reduce cost, speed decisions, and build confidence, which is the key to proving GRC’s value. Watch the full webinar on our YouTube channel. 

3. Moving Beyond Legacy Tools and Choosing the Right Technology

Just like growing businesses, many larger teams still rely on tools that weren’t built for GRC.

At the booth, conversations repeatedly shared that manual workflows, distributed responsibilities and disconnected systems are slowing progress. This was underpinned by a clear, growing appetite for automation, particularly around slow, data-intensive tasks like monitoring controls and completing risk assessments.

With an urgency to prove the value of their investment, GRC leaders also wanted faster time to value with a stronger interest in modular tools that integrate easily.  

Trusted by industry leaders, SureCloud for Enterprise is the most intelligent GRC platform that lets experienced teams identify the risks that really matter, taking a central view and applying selective automation to break down silos and inefficiencies across the entire business.

As a result, our customers have built resilience, both preventing risks from being exploited and saving time to improve their overall governance and strategy.  

Are you looking for a risk and compliance solution that brings agility, confidence, and alignment to your GRC strategy? 

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