Risk Grustlers
Hosted by Nicholas Muy
Scrut's interview show where security and GRC leaders argue about what compliance is actually for.
- Level
- Practitioner, assumes you work in or study security
- Status
- Active, last episode
- Who's behind it
- Vendor-run, Scrut Automation sourceHosted by Scrut's CISO.
- Last verified
- Transcripts for every episode
Listed underGRC and privacyCISO and leadership
Editorial take
A small, vendor-owned interview show that punches above its size on guests. Scrut Automation, a compliance software company, produces it, and its CISO Nicholas Muy now hosts. The 2026 run includes Wendy Nather on the "security poverty line", Sounil Yu on agentic AI, Mike Privette on security economics and Larry Whiteside Jr. on the weight of leadership. Episodes are short, often 18 to 35 minutes, and stay on GRC and security program questions rather than Scrut's product. The catch is cadence: 28 episodes since 2023, with gaps of two months or more and a format and host change along the way. Pick episodes by guest rather than subscribing for a weekly habit.
Last hand-checked 2026-09-30.
Listen if you …
- work in GRC or compliance and want sharper thinking than audit checklists
- want short interviews with well-known security leaders
- are moving from compliance into broader security leadership
Skip if you …
- you want a regular release schedule, episodes arrive in irregular bursts
- you want technical depth, conversations stay at program and strategy level
Start with these 3 episodes
- 01
Risk Grustlers | EP 20 | The Security Poverty Line ft. Wendy Nather
· 18 min · Beginner
Eighteen minutes that reframe compliance: why smaller organizations cannot buy the same security outcomes.
- 02
Risk Grustlers | EP 23 | The GRC identity crisis ft. Alan Luk
· 54 min · Practitioner
The show at its best: a long, candid look at where GRC teams are heading as the work becomes engineering.
- 03
Risk Grustlers | EP 19 | Securing agentic AI ecosystems ft. Sounil Yu
· 24 min · Practitioner
The Cyber Defense Matrix author on running agentic AI safely, starting from identity hygiene.
About the show
Risk Grustlers is produced by Scrut Automation, a GRC and compliance software company. Early episodes were hosted by Scrut co-founder and CEO Aayush Ghosh Choudhury; since late 2025 most episodes are hosted by Nicholas Muy, Scrut's CISO and VP of Engineering.
The show began in August 2023 and has published 28 episodes. Episodes are interviews of about 18 to 55 minutes on GRC, security leadership and AI risk, and episode pages on scrut.io link to full transcripts.
Notable guests
- Wendy Nather
- Sounil Yu
- Ashish Rajan
- Mike Privette
- Larry Whiteside Jr.
- Edward Wu
- Alan Luk
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