Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc.

Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc.

Technology, Information and Internet

Austin, Texas 659 followers

Quantified Risk & Compliance Management in Real-Time

About us

Mercury Risk and Compliance stands at the forefront of the cybersecurity and technology risk management landscape, pioneering innovative solutions and methodologies to safeguard businesses against evolving threats. With a commitment to delivering unparalleled services, Mercury addresses a spectrum of risk domains including Cyber, Technology, third-Party, User, and Physical World Harm. At the heart of Mercury's approach lies a standardized, interconnected framework that ensures comprehensive risk coverage. Leveraging proprietary data-centric and context-driven methods, Mercury employs the "Grounds’ Rules" and "Risk as Currency" concepts, prioritizing Value Protection over mere loss avoidance. This unique perspective is further bolstered by Automated Control Efficacy Testing (ACET) methods and Automated Dynamic Asset Mapping (ADAM) capabilities, powered by AI and Machine Learning. Mercury's leadership team boasts extensive experience in pioneering automated cybersecurity and risk management solutions, drawing from their backgrounds at industry giants such as Hewlett Packard, DXC.technology, Verizon, Meta, and Intel. This wealth of expertise enables Mercury to deliver actionable, context-aware solutions in near-real-time, empowering organizations with defensible operational and strategic decision-making abilities. With proven methodologies, cutting-edge technology, and a commitment to excellence, Mercury Risk and Compliance continues to redefine the standards of risk management, ensuring the resilience and security of businesses across industries.

Website
www.mercuryrisk.com
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2023
Specialties
Cyber Risk Quantification, Automated Controls Efficacy Testing (ACET), Near-real-time Compliance Management, GRC, CRQ, Grounds' Rules, Compliance Management, Risk Management, Governance, Cyber Security, AI-GRC, and Enterprise Risk

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Employees at Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc.

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  • Love this visual from our #CISO, Matthew Rosenquist - conveys the messaging around prioritization, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities all in the same vista! #grc #cybersecurity #grc #riskmanagement #crq

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    Matthew Rosenquist Matthew Rosenquist is an Influencer

    CISO at Mercury Risk. - Formerly Intel Corp, Cybersecurity Strategist, Board Advisor, Keynote Speaker, 190k followers

    Conveying the risks and progress for a #cybersecurity program to executives is difficult.  Over the years, I have explored countless ways to quickly and effectively distill the complexities of cyber risk into a simple graphic that informs management teams so the best decisions can be made. This is my go-to graphic when talking with executives and boards because it: 1.     Showcases strategic value 2.     Conveys operational updates at a strategic level 3.     Highlights important issues 4.     Provides the right level of understanding for non-security audiences 5.     Drives the right conversations for good risk decisions 6.     Is easy to create and update In the video I discuss why it is powerful, how to use it to drive productive conversations, and walk through the simple steps to create one. What is your favorite cybersecurity graphic to drive good executive decisions? https://lnkd.in/gyqCbcBx #metrics Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc. #leadership

    Best Strategic Metric for Cybersecurity

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  • Come and join Grace Beason and Gavin Anthony Grounds today at ISACA GRC 2024, with #IIA. Monday 12 August from 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. in Lone Star F, Level 3 Learn how to leverage automation, machine learning, and #AI models to address complex #GRC requirements whilst simultaneously driving efficiency, improving accuracy and maintaining privacy. Join us later at Booth 212 and catch up with Matthew Rosenquist (#CISO) and Allen Wuescher (#CIO)

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    Matthew Rosenquist Matthew Rosenquist is an Influencer

    CISO at Mercury Risk. - Formerly Intel Corp, Cybersecurity Strategist, Board Advisor, Keynote Speaker, 190k followers

    At ISACA GRC Austin, check out the presentation by Gavin Grounds and Grace Beason: Revolutionizing Governance, Risk, and Compliance: The Future of Automated and Integrated GRC Monday 12 August from 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. in Lone Star F, Level 3 In this session attendees will learn how to leverage automation, machine learning, and AI models to address complex GRC requirements whilst simultaneously driving efficiency, improving accuracy and maintaining privacy. #cybersecurity #compliance #grc

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  • Very excited to see Gavin Anthony Grounds, Grace Beason, Supra Appikonda, and Susan Palm sharing the stage on this one! Join them on this insightful webinar to get some real-world experiences and knowledge on how to effectively and efficiently map and verify compliance, across multiple frameworks and regulatory environments - and how to represent and manage compliance (or the lack of) in the context of Operational Risk. Sign up to join… see you there! #riskmanagement #grc #cisco #risk Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc. 4CRisk.ai

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    Register to Learn how your organizations can: - Understand the Challenge: What Information and cyber risk teams must do to address top priorities by leveraging frameworks to ensure adequate controls are in place. - Deep Dive into the Use Case: See how 4CRisk.ai’s AI-Powered Compliance Map product helped Guidewire, one of the Top 25 Fintech companies, understand their policy and control gaps to NIST CSF in days, rather than months. - Imagine More Use Cases: How Compliance Map allows compliance professionals to assess the design efficacy of their compliance program by comparing their external obligations to their internal control environment by matching rulebooks (regulations, rules, and laws) to applicable governance artifacts (policies, procedures, contracts and controls. - See The Benefits: Quickly understand opportunities to use the power of AI to lower the burden of repetitive and tedious manual work on your regulatory, risk, and compliance professionals.

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  • Agreed that there may be apathy in certain groups, perhaps even consumers and even with Cyber Security professionals... But, it's almost certain that the FCC might care about the number of Regulatory violations for failing to protect Call / SMS records. Many of their Corporate clients will be concerned about potential failures to meet contractual obligations - both in public sector and private sector. Various shareholders and other stakeholders won't be quite so passive as this post implies, about the downstream impacts (actualized risks) of this significant data loss event. The data loss is the OUTCOME, or resulting state. The materialized risk(s) will be the realized consequences of that outcome. Risk = potential Consequence(s). Risk ≠ Likelihood x Impact. Ask AT&T!!! Their impact (consequences) will not be diluted by the previously incorrectly estimated likelihood - because once likelihood = 100% (i.e. the risk materialized), then the Risk(s), or Consequence(s), are 100% realized. No dilution based on a foundationally flawed risk quantification method. #riskmanagement #ciso #crq #riskquantification #groundsrules

  • If you are in the Austin area tomorrow (July 16th), be sire to look to register and attend this session by Allen Wuescher, hosted by Society for Information Management. This will be as insightful and educational as it will be entertaining. Come and join if you can! #riskmanagement #fraud #cio #crq

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    Executive Counselor @ Info-Tech Research Group | Key Note Speaker | Big 4 Advisory | Piano Player

    Society for Information Management July Meeting is tomorrow!

  • Coming off the heels of the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, RSA Conference, and our workshop at the GRC Summit 2024 hosted by MetricStream, we are thrilled to announce the arrival of AURORA and A.D.A.M. (Automated Dynamic Asset Mapping). These innovations mark "the dawning of a new day" in Cyber and Technology Risk Management, 3rd-Party Risk Management, and User Risk Management. The integration of Aurora, ACET, and A.D.A.M. offers business-centric decision-making, prioritization, and risk optimization, focusing on driving return-on-risk, rather than solely avoiding losses. This milestone is a significant step in our continuing journey, in collaboration with our clients, partners, and investors. Check out our milestone announcement here... #CISO #GRC #CRQ #RiskManagement #GRCsummit2024 #RSAC2024 #GartnerSummit

    The Dawning of a New Day in Cybersecurity and Technology Risk Management: Introducing AURORA

    The Dawning of a New Day in Cybersecurity and Technology Risk Management: Introducing AURORA

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  • Why has there been so much noise and hustle around Cyber Risk Management, Cyber Risk Quantification (#CRQ), Third Party Risk Management (#TPRM) and yet, so little progress and meaningful business return? (Yes, we know there is a small number of anomalies of success and you might be one!.. YOU know and WE know who you are! 😊 ) But the truth is that for the vast majority, building, scaling, and earning measurable business return on these programs is still unattainable. Similarly, with the billions of dollars spent on Cybersecurity, and Risk and Compliance Management programs, breaches and legal / regulatory failures are increasing exponentially. Why? The answer is quite simple. The foundations typically being used for Cyber Risk Quantification, Third Party Risk Quantification and Management, and Compliance Management are fundamentally flawed for these domains. And even worse, throwing automation and AI at a solution where the model and design itself is already flawed, will produce nothing but negative returns. If your Cyber / Technology Risk quantification, Compliance, and Third Party Risk Management models are based solely on loss avoidance, history, manual assessments, likelihood calculations based on regression models (e.g. Monte Carlo simulations), and are essentially based on imagined scenarios, then they will fail - not least of which because they are based on Loss Avoidance instead of Value Protection, Value Development and Return on Risk. If you are available in Baltimore, MD USA on June 17, 2024, join our co-founders, Gavin Anthony Grounds and Grace Beason for an in-person workshop on how to build an effective, value-based, business-centric Risk and Compliance Management program. This is a FREE workshop for anyone attending the GRC Summit 2024, hosted by MetricStream. Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/g7vx-QM5 If you plan to attend in person and also want some additional (free) time with Gavin and Grace to discuss your plans, ideas, questions, issues, or concerns, use this link to set up some on-site office hours: https://lnkd.in/gPjKw5xF If you can't attend the event, but want to learn more from Gavin and Grace, request a FREE 1:1 briefing here: https://lnkd.in/g2_G4qqg If you want to have a session with Gavin, Grace AND our CISO and Cybersecurity Strategist, Matthew Rosenquist, use this link to find a time: https://lnkd.in/g9bc2ANb Hope you can connect with our team soon! #ciso #riskmanagement #grc #metricstreamgrc

    Experience the Power of Connection

    Experience the Power of Connection

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  • Not “post run risk tips” - just random insights from our CEO, Gavin Anthony Grounds

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    CEO & Co-founder | Cybersecurity | Risk Management, Compliance Management (GRC) | Executive Advisory

    LIFE LESSONS & REMINDERS: We are all professionals here. Seeking to learn from each other; seeking to share our knowledge; seeking to expand our networks; seeking to go from success to success. So, I thought I’d share with you all an absolute awesome life-reminder that I got this morning as I travel to Gartner’s Security & Risk Management at National Harbor. Here in the American Airlines lounge (I know!… hoytie-toytie already!) A guy walked up between me and the guy sitting next to me and spoke to him and said, “Wow! Is that a Submariner?” (A Submariner is a specific Rolex watch.) They carried on chatting about the price of the watch and how they’re so difficult to get now and how the Submariner Oyster 40mm will run you about US$16,000+ The guy wearing it was an older guy. Only this morning, I was reading an article about some of the last quotes of Steve Jobst who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. Apparently, his last words were, as he looked at his sister, his kids, and his partner, he said, “Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!” The guy sitting next to me wearing the Blue Oyster Mariner said to the guy admiring it: “it was a gift to me. It tells me what time it is… it tells me how long I’ve spent already… it doesn’t tell me how long I have left. It was a gift - but I never would have bought it. Any watch can tell me what time it is and how much time I’ve wasted already.” I wanted to tell him how profound that was - but he’s gone already. I didn’t even see him leave! I guess my lesson for the day is, in every aspect of life, prioritize on what matters most and realize that it’s not about making every second count - but about being pleased with what you do with every second (even if that’s just chilling and relaxing.) #5secondtourist #profound #ciso

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  • Why do you even do Cyber Risk Quantification? Why do you NOT do Cyber Risk Quantification? Why do you drive for compliance in Cyber and Technology? Why do you NOT manage compliance well enough? How and why can you address all of these opportunities effectively, delivering business value? Join us for this live, free (NO-SALES-PITCH) educational webinar tomorrow (May 29th) hosted by MetricStream. It will be delivered in a conversational panel discussion style, with live audience participation, by Pat McParland, Grace Beason, and Gavin Anthony Grounds. Click the link below to register. See you there! #ciso #cybersecurity #grc #crq #riskmanagement #compliance

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    What is autonomous risk assessment? How can it help improve cyber risk management? How it is different from standard approaches like cyber risk quantification? Find out this and more in an informative webinar on May 29 with Gavin Anthony Grounds, CEO and Founder of Mercury Risk and Compliance, Grace Beason, Director Of Governance, Risk and Compliance at Guidewire Software, and MetricStream expert Pat McParland. Reserve your spot now and stay ahead of cyber risks! Please visit: https://hubs.li/Q02wTRJj0 #cyberrisk #cyberriskassessment #cyberriskquantification

    Autonomous Risk and Compliance: Webinar

    Autonomous Risk and Compliance: Webinar

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    Matthew Rosenquist Matthew Rosenquist is an Influencer

    CISO at Mercury Risk. - Formerly Intel Corp, Cybersecurity Strategist, Board Advisor, Keynote Speaker, 190k followers

    Who else is attending the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit next week (June 3rd-5th)? The Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc will be there (Gavin Anthony Grounds, Grace Beason, and I), chatting with fellow #cybersecurity leaders about better metrics which pinpoint optimal resource prioritization and security spending justification based upon what is most valuable to the organization. Send me a message if you want to meet or just grab a cup of coffee to chat.  #CRQ

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