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Media release · 29 September 2026

MyRISK Named a Cool Vendor™ in the 2026 Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM Report

One of four vendors named, and the only one headquartered in Australia. MyRISK Trace launches at AISA CyberCon 2026, 14–16 October.

Gartner Cool Vendor 2026

SYDNEY, Australia, 29 September 2026 — MyRISK, an Australian risk technology and advisory company, today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor™ in the Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM report, published 9 September 2026.1 MyRISK is one of four vendors named in the report, and the only one headquartered in Australia. The company will launch MyRISK Trace, its decision defensibility product, at AISA CyberCon 2026 in Melbourne, 14–16 October.

According to the report, “Incumbents' breadth-first platform model is leaving real gaps; smaller, specialized vendors are making inroads in the marketplace by solving a single workflow gap completely, rather than adding yet another module.”

Built for the moment someone asks how a decision was made

When a board, auditor or regulator asks about a decision months later, the evidence, approvals and ownership behind it are usually scattered across tools, meetings and inboxes. MyRISK Trace keeps them with the decision, so it can be replayed rather than reconstructed. It is built for three situations where scrutiny tends to arrive later:

  • AI approvals: the risk assessment, policy version, conditions and sign-off behind approving an AI use case, model or vendor.
  • Supplier exceptions: the evidence as it stood at the time, the compensating controls, the approvers, and the owner and expiry of every condition.
  • Risk acceptance: the assumptions, authority and review date, with a drift view that shows when something has changed that could unsettle the approval.

Each decision is evaluated against versioned, deterministic audit assertions, so re-running the evaluation later returns the result the organisation relied on at the time. For AI decisions, Trace tests the facts, conditions and approvals recorded about the decision, not the model's behaviour. Engagements start with a fixed-scope, fixed-price Decision Defensibility Diagnostic on one recent decision.

“We consider our inclusion in this Gartner report confirmation of the path we chose,” said David Vohradsky, Founder and CEO of MyRISK. “Boards and regulators increasingly want to know not just what was decided, but why, on what evidence and with whose authority. We built Trace so that record exists at the moment the decision is made.”

See Trace at AISA CyberCon 2026

MyRISK is on stand 33 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 14–16 October. Attendees can bring a recent decision and see how it would replay. Book a demonstration at myrisk.io.

About MyRISK

MyRISK is an Australian risk technology and advisory company that helps organisations build risk management they can rely on. MyRISK Trace makes high-stakes decisions replayable and defensible (patent pending, AU application 2026203358). MyRISK Essentials gives growing organisations practical visibility, ownership and follow-through (patent pending, AU application 2026203360). MyRISK Core and MyRISK Consulting operationalise reusable assurance and workflow patterns around the systems already in use. MyRISK is an Oracle ISV partner, headquartered in Sydney with a US office in Fairfax, Virginia. Learn more at myrisk.io.

Media contact

David Vohradsky, Founder and CEO · [email protected] · +61 2 8213 9000 · +1 703 483 3109

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Gartner, Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM, Jie Zhang, Antonia Donaldson, Zachary Ginsburg, 9 September 2026.

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