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How Your Peers Are Tackling GRC: 5 Key Moves to Build a Program that Measures Up

A practical checklist built from Hyperproof’s 2026 IT Risk and Compliance Benchmark Report. Find out the five moves top-performing GRC programs are making right now, with the data to back each one; so you know exactly where to focus first.

What’s inside? 

Centralization. Standardization. Automation. Those are the three things mature GRC programs have in common, according to data from Hyperproof’s 2026 IT Risk and Compliance Benchmark Report.

If you’re trying to move up the GRC maturity model, this checklist gives you five specific, benchmarked moves — backed by real numbers from real GRC teams — that separate the programs getting budget increases from the ones still doing damage control after a breach.

The checklist covers:
  • Why teams using a common controls framework are cutting duplicative controls by up to 66%
  • The automation shift driving a 70% jump in compliance productivity
  • The stark gap in breach rates between ad-hoc and integrated risk management
  • Why 97% of GRC teams use AI, but only 27% apply it where it matters most
  • What it actually takes to turn GRC from a cost center into a case for more budget
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