Who’s on this one
Brian Albertson — GRC Technical Architect at State Farm, speaker, and author of THE HIVE: A Fable of Fear, Governance and Transformation, Volumes I and II (CRC Press, October 2026). Twenty-five years inside governance, risk and compliance at one carrier — and he chose to write what he learned as fiction, which tells you something about how hard the subject is to raise directly.
Sid Roper — VP of Customer Solutions, Compyl. 24 years in cybersecurity and GRC, spent replacing manual chaos with automated trust and scalable compliance.
Daniel Tangney — Host, GRC Radio.
Who should be in the room
- GRC and compliance managers — if you have ever accepted an answer you knew was optimistic, this is the session about why.
- CISOs and security leaders — the incentives you set decide the quality of the data you get. This is the uncomfortable half, and then the constructive one.
- Anyone building a team — what makes people report a problem early instead of managing the answer.
Run of show
Forty-five minutes. Roughly 35 of conversation, 10 of your questions. No slides.
- Why a fable — 25 years of fieldwork, and why it had to be fiction to land.
- Where the data goes soft — self-attestation, questionnaires, and the registers filled in by the people who own the risk.
- The cost of an honest answer — why rounding up is rational, and what it does downstream.
- What leaders signal — the unintentional messages that shape what gets reported.
- Making the truth cheap — separating discovery from blame, and what actually changes behaviour.
- Paying it forward — what the next generation needs from the people already in the seat.
- Live Q&A — open floor.
