Episki-State-of-GRC-Trends-Budgets-and-Benchmarks-2026.md

This 2026 State of GRC report from Episki synthesizes practitioner interviews, customer data, and public guidance to describe how regulatory volume, multi-framework adoption, and automation are reshaping compliance programs; it covers trends in NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS v4.0.1, CMMC, the EU AI Act, budget benchmarks, vendor risk, and rising GRC team burnout while forecasting continued automation and AI governance prominence in 2027.