GRC · Cohort 1 finalist
Jessica Ighoraye
Built Sentinel Bridge
Technical highlights
- I built a prototype that takes security evidence through the full process: Evidence → Finding → Risk → Remediation → Business Decision It runs 12 security checks covering areas like privileged access, encryption, outdated software, endpoint protection, logging, cloud storage, backups, and remote access.
- For a fictional payments company, Florence Inc., I created 30 evidence variations to test secure, insecure, missing, invalid, and remediated environments.
- The project has 230+ automated tests and can trace findings back to their evidence.
In the finalist's own words, from their project submission.
GRC project
Sentinel Bridge
Organizations have a lot of security information, but findings alone don't always tell you what to do next. This was the gap I wanted SentinelBridge to address. I built a prototype that takes security evidence through the full process: Evidence → Finding → Risk → Remediation → Business Decision It runs 12 security checks covering areas like privileged access, encryption, outdated software, endpoint protection, logging, cloud storage, backups, and remote access. Each result is Pass, Fail, Insufficient Evidence, or Invalid Input. I was particularly intentional about insufficient evidence because missing information shouldn't automatically become a security failure. For a fictional payments company, Florence Inc., I created 30 evidence variations to test secure, insecure, missing, invalid, and remediated environments. The project has 230+ automated tests and can trace findings back to their evidence. It's still a prototype, with simulated evidence and illustrative financial figures, but the goal was simple: connect technical security findings to decisions management can actually act on.
In their words.
Overall it has been a great experience to be in a room with so many great minds.
Everytime I see someone achieve something it re-ignites the flames in me to keep pushing and one day I'll also achieve great things too!
It is also very evident that UBI cares about its interns.
