The No Nonsense Guide to GRC

This hub brings together all chapters of the No Nonsense Guide to GRC. The guide is written for practitioners responsible for running governance, risk, and compliance in practice across risk, compliance, cyber, privacy, third-party, and audit functions. Each chapter is published as a standalone page, allowing you to explore specific topics as and when they are relevant, while all chapters follow the same underlying structure and language so they can be read together as a coherent operating model

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CHAPTER 1: Introduction to GRC Practitioner's Guide

An introduction to the GRC Practitioner Guide. Learn how the guide is structured and how to use it in practice.

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CHAPTER 2: GRC Fundamentals: Shared Language and Building Blocks

GRC fundamentals for practitioners: shared language, core concepts, and repeatable building blocks to align risk, compliance, cyber, privacy, and audit work.

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CHAPTER 3: Risk Management Excellence

A practical guide to scenario-based risk management. Learn how to run a single risk lifecycle across cyber, privacy, third-party, and enterprise risk.

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CHAPTER 4: Compliance and the Internal Control Framework

Learn how to design a single internal control framework that maps obligations to practical controls across risk, compliance, audit, cyber, and privacy.

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CHAPTER 5: Regulatory Change as an Operating Discipline

Learn how to manage regulatory and contractual change using a simple, repeatable process that reduces surprises and keeps GRC teams aligned.

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CHAPTER 6: Cyber Risk and Resilience

Learn how to manage cyber risk as operational resilience, linking threats, incidents, and exercises to services, third parties, and GRC decisions.

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CHAPTER 7: Third-Party Risk Management

A practical guide to managing third-party risk through service dependencies, engagement-level oversight, and continuous review.

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CHAPTER 8 - Enterprise Risk

Learn how to create an enterprise risk view that connects domain risks, services, and appetite into meaningful leadership decisions.

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CHAPTER 9: Internal Audit Integration

A practical guide to integrating internal audit with risk and assurance to improve learning and reduce repeat findings.

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CHAPTER 10 : Data Privacy and Protection

Learn how to manage data privacy using shared GRC objects linking processing activities, vendors, risks, and controls.

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CHAPTER 11: GRC Strategy and Maturity

A practical GRC maturity model to help teams plan next steps and align risk, compliance, and resilience.

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CHAPTER 12: GRC Glossary

Plain-English definitions of core GRC terms used across risk, compliance, cyber, privacy, audit, and third-party management.

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