Turn Your Organization into a Known-Knowns Factory
Stop guessing. Start proving. Move beyond checkbox compliance and build an enterprise engine that delivers real-time risk insights you can trust for the most critical business decisions you will ever make.
Most organizations still operate with yesterday’s risk posture. Occasional spot-checking of the past (audits), fragmented coordination, and the false comfort of the past to predict the future. The result? Costly blind spots, slow reactions, and decisions made on hunches instead of hard facts.
Combined Assurance Blueprinting gives you the method to replace this outdated model with a system that continuously transforms uncertainty into actionable truth. This is more than technology. It’s a methodical approach to examining, categorizing, and measuring your organization so leadership can make confident, timely, and risk-informed decisions.
Drawing on the Attestify Combined Assurance Model™, you’ll learn how to:
- Eliminate Fragmented Coordination – Create shared, verifiable truths across governance, risk, compliance, and operations.
- Move Beyond Compliance – Shift from reactive box-ticking to proactive, real-time assurance.
- Turn Unknowns into Knowns – Build systems that expose risks before they turn into incidents.
- Empower Risk-Based Decisions – Give decision-makers objective, trustworthy data at the speed of change.
Whether you are in the C-Suite, on a Board of Directors, or an Audit, Risk, Compliance, IT, or Operations Professional, this book equips you to lead the shift from illusion-of-control to operational truth. Anytime, every time.
About the Series
Part of The Attestify Series, this book delivers practical strategies for modern Operational Risk Management, Autonomous Assurance, and Real-Time Risk leaders who are ready to rethink how organizations see and manage risk.
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Updates Since Last Version
* Updated the “Introduction”
* Updated Part I title to “*Three Problems, Three Questions*”, along with the description of what to expect in this part.
* Added “*The Dual Narrative Approach”,* which describes the updated fictional & non-fictional approach to the book.
* Table of Contents
* Added a part cover page for all four parts
* Within each part, provided chapters pages as holding places, or summarized material, where new content will be added in future revisions
* Part I: Three Problems, Three Questions
* Added Part I section page
* Added modified “Keep up to date” links, with notice that Part I is partially complete
* Added a new chapter, “*Occasional-Spot Checking of the Past*”
* Within the chapter, added a new section “*Marcus \- Green Dashboards, Red Reality*”
* Added new chapter pages, without content, for *Known-Knows, Fragmented Coordination,* and *Three Questions.*
* None of these chapters currently has content; they only contain the “Keep Up to Date” links and placeholder content.
* Part II: Attestify Combined Assurance Model™
* Added Part II section page
* Added the “Keep Up to Date” links, with a link to a downloadable PDF of the Combined Assurance model
* Added a new chapter, “The Model”, with a picture of the Attestify Combined Assurance Model in it
* Part III: Combined Assurance Blueprinting
* Added new Part III cover page
* Added modified “Keep up to date” link, with a notice that Part III is partially complete.
* Provided links to download PDFs for: A 5-pack of empty canvases, individual downloadable canvases, and Firewall canvases example.
* Added the following new chapters. Each has its corresponding blueprint canvas, a brief description of that canvas, and a link to download the canvas as a PDF.
* Identifying Risk
* Establish a Control Standard
* Generate an Assurance Procedure
* Create a Risk Evaluation
* Develop a Control Procedure
* Part IV: Building a Known-Known Factory
* Added new Part IV cover page
* Added modified “Keep up to date” link; no other content added.
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