--- title: "Autonomous Risk and Compliance: Webinar" description: Join our expert webinar for insights into the different types of cyber and risk assessments and how to build autonomous, quantitative cyber risk assessment capabilities. --- [![WEBINAR](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/New%20Images%202020/logo-white.png) ](https://www.metricstream.com/) EXPERT WEBINAR # Autonomous Risk and Compliance: Simplifying Cyber Risk Assessments with Automation ## Featuring Risk Management Experts Gavin Grounds & Grace Beason ### Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 | Time: 8:00 am PT | 11:00 am ET | 4:00 pm UK Time **Speakers** [![Gavin](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Gavin.png) **Gavin Grounds** CEO and Founder, Mercury Risk and Compliance ](https://info.metricstream.com/webinar/autonomous-risk-and-compliance.html#modelbox2) ![Gavin](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Gavin.png) **Gavin Grounds** CEO and Founder, Mercury Risk and Compliance   [![Grace B](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(3)-1.jpg) **Grace Beason** Director Of Governance, Risk and Compliance, Guidewire Software ](https://info.metricstream.com/webinar/autonomous-risk-and-compliance.html#modelbox1) ![Grace B](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(3)-1.jpg) **Grace Beason** Director Of Governance, Risk and Compliance, Guidewire Software   Grace has more than 15 years hands on experience building both procedural and technical solutions, as well as leading global technology and engineering teams to fully automate and operationalize automated Governance and Compliance in large scale IT and OT environments. Grace led the global transformation of governance, risk, and compliance both for Enterprise Services at Hewlett-Packard and the Global Delivery Organization at DXC Technology. Creating efficiency through automation, Grace, developed, built, and operationalized automated compliance and governance operations for more than 3000 Enterprise customers for which these companies provided IT operations and development services. Most recently, Grace was appointed as the global leader of Governance, Risk and Compliance, for a software company, Guidewire Software, that specializes in developing and producing SaaS and onPrem software solutions for the insurance industry, where she is affecting and executing the exact same methodology that she developed and operationalized at Hewlett-Packard, to successfully apply that in a small and medium (SME) size enterprise environment. She has demonstrated that the methodology that she developed, fully operationalized and automated, at scale for multiple large enterprises, can be effectively operationalized and implemented in both small and medium enterprises as well. [![Patcrica](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Patcrica.jpg) **Patricia McParland** AVP Product Marketing, MetricStream ](https://info.metricstream.com/webinar/autonomous-risk-and-compliance.html#modelbox3) ![Patcrica](https://info.metricstream.com/hubfs/Patcrica.jpg) **Patricia McParland** AVP Product Marketing, MetricStream   In an era where cyber threats loom large, organizations face the daunting challenge of effectively assessing and managing cyber risk. Join us for an insightful webinar featuring risk management expert **Gavin Grounds, CEO and Founder of Mercury Risk and Compliance and Grace Beason, Director Of Governance, Risk and Compliance at Guidewire Software **as we explore the complexities of cyber risk assessment and unveil strategies for simplifying the process through automation. Join the webinar where the experts will discuss the importance and key elements of an agile and forward-looking GRC strategy and more, including: - Understanding the different types of cyber and risk assessments - Exploring the effectiveness of qualitative versus quantitative risk management approaches - Building and scaling an autonomous, quantitative cyber risk assessment capability - Differentiating autonomous, asset-based risk assessment and quantification from standard approaches like cyber risk quantification - Sharing the benefits of continuous, autonomous risk assessment of assets - Describing how to implement an autonomous risk approach in your organization Gavin brings a wealth of experience, having served as the Senior Director of Security, Risk, and Compliance at Meta and Verizon, as well as the Enterprise Services Delivery CISO at DXC. This webinar is tailored for heads of IT risk, compliance, cyber risk, and GRC, offering valuable insights and actionable strategies to enhance your organization's cyber risk management practices. Don't miss this opportunity to gain expert guidance and take your cyber risk assessments to the next level.  **In case you’re unable to catch the live webinar, please register to receive the recording which you can watch at your convenience.** ## REGISTER TO VIEW THE RECORDED WEBINAR - [** +1-650-620-2955 ](https://www.metricstream.com/about-us/contact.htm) - [** Contact](https://info.metricstream.com/contact.html?hsLang=en) - [** Subscribe](https://info.metricstream.com/newsletter.html?hsLang=en) - [** Careers ](https://www.metricstream.com/about-us/careers.htm) Join the Conversation [**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/metricstream)[** ](https://twitter.com/metricstream) [**](https://www.facebook.com/MetricStream)[**](https://www.youtube.com/metricstream)[** ](https://blogs.metricstream.com/) © 2026 MetricStream Inc. All Rights Reserved. [Privacy Policy](https://www.metricstream.com/about-us/privacy-policy.htm) | [Sitemap](https://www.metricstream.com/all-offering.htm)