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Demystifying MCP for GRC

Learn practical steps to safely govern MCP adoption and streamline workflows across audit, risk, and compliance teams.

Description

Bridging the gap between audit, risk, and compliance professionals and first-line teams demands an integrated and AI-first approach. Security operations heavily rely on advanced AI today, requiring GRC programs to adapt and collaborate seamlessly. Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard serving as a universal translator for the AI-first GRC era.

Join Keatron Evans, Head of AI Strategy and Enablement at Cengage, Stewart Moody, Competitive Intelligence Manager at Optro, and Megan Sawle, Analyst Relations & Market Intelligence Director at Optro, as they demystify MCP for GRC, and demonstrate how you can use it to break down silos and drive stronger risk visibility across the business. Together they will explore:

MCP foundations: How MCP connects enterprise AI to GRC data, and why the value comes from the context you provide, not the protocol itself.
Security and privacy considerations: Expert insights into data guardrails, including how MCP respects existing user permissions and roles to ensure secure, authorized access.
Practical GRC use cases: Real-world examples showing how to share data across silos and teams via MCP.

About the speakers

Keatron Evans is VP of AI Enablement and Strategy at Cengage, leading a portfolio spanning higher education, workforce development, and trades into an AI-first organization. With 20+ years as an AI pioneer, cybersecurity expert, and intelligence-sector innovator, he drives AI strategy, governance, and enablement across workforce operations and product innovation. He holds pending patents for AI-powered systems leveraging behavioral intelligence, computer vision, and generative AI to reimagine talent assessment and learning at scale.

Megan Sawle is a communications and research professional with over 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and higher education. Before becoming the Analyst Relations & Market Intelligence Director at Optro, she served as the Director of Product Marketing at LogicGate, where she used market research and insights to refine and mature the company's go-to-market strategy. Throughout her career, she has directed research projects on various cybersecurity topics, including dark web marketplaces, phishing kits, the NICE Framework, and the role of soft skills in cybersecurity. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Stewart Moody works on Optro's Market Intelligence team, where he studies the market and turns it into analysis the rest of the business can leverage. His path to Optro started with working in the Managed Service Provider space where he responded to ransomware attacks, deployed security and cloud tools, and advised clients on tooling before moving into sales engineering at Vanta and SecurityScorecard.

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