The GRC Engineering Club's AntiCheckBox Podcast

Compliance became a documentation ritual somewhere along the way.

Screenshots, spreadsheets, a scramble every quarter, and a piece of paper at the end that tells you almost nothing about whether the control actually works. That job is getting automated out from under the people doing it, and good riddance.

The AntiCheckbox Podcast is about the other version of this work. Controls as a data and engineering problem. Evidence that generates itself. Governance you can defend to a regulator, a board, or a plaintiff's attorney because the system produces the proof, not because somebody filled in a cell.

Every week we sit down with the practitioners actually building this way. Auditors who got tired of asking for screenshots and learned to write code. Engineers who got handed a framework and refused to accept that it had to be miserable. The people writing the standards, the people running programs at scale, and the ones who lived through the audit that changed how they think.

No vendor pitches. No certification worship. No pretending the current model is fine.

If you work in GRC, security, risk, audit, privacy, or you are trying to get into any of it and cannot get a straight answer from anybody, this is for you.

The show is the front door to the GRC Engineering Club, a community of practitioners doing this work in the open. Early episodes, the Slack, and The Convergence newsletter live at patreon.com/c/GRCEngineeringClub.

Seeking guests who are pioneering the integration of technology in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC); particularly those who have shifted from traditional compliance documentation to innovative, automated solutions that provide real, defensible evidence in security, risk management, and privacy.

Note: Guest insights are created with AI assistance.