Volume 1 available now

Master AI Literacy for Governance, Risk & Compliance

A plain-language guide to machine learning for auditors, compliance officers, and risk professionals. Real cases, zero mathematics, written for the people accountable for systems they did not build.

AI Literacy Built on Real Audit Experience

This book was written for the people who are asked to review, approve, and answer for AI systems, not the people who build them. It replaces dense mathematics with plain language, everyday analogies, and documented real-world failures.

You never need to run a line of Python. You only need to understand what a model is doing, and where it can quietly go wrong.

Core Principles

Who This Book Is For

Written for the professionals who sit between the legal team and the technical team.

Auditors & Compliance Officers

Move past the checklist and learn the questions a model actually has to answer.

AI Governance Analysts

Understand data definitions, model choices, and where the real failure points sit.

Career Changers

Teachers, veterans, and returning professionals moving into GRC without a technical background.

Organizational Leaders

Shift from bureaucratic sign-off to a genuine effective challenge mindset.

ML & AI Literacy for GRC Professionals

Volume 1, Foundations and the Questions Behind the Numbers. Available as a digital edition you read in your browser, or as a printed hardcover delivered to you.

What You Will Learn

Enough to govern an AI system. Not enough to build one, and that is the point.

The Vocabulary That Matters

The words that change what you are actually approving.

Reading Code Without Writing It

Small blocks of code you read and verify, never author.

Data Discipline

Where accuracy numbers come from, and when to distrust them.

Real World Failures

Documented cases, examined for the governance point that was missed.
About the Author

Eunice Abora

Senior GRC consultant and information system security officer. Her work spans government, healthcare, education, and financial services, and she has taught governance, risk, and compliance to professionals in more than 15 countries.

She wrote this book from both sides of the audit table, for the practitioners she has spent years training.

The Book Series

Each volume stands on its own and builds on the one before it.
Volume 1

Foundations and the Questions Behind the Numbers

The vocabulary, the data discipline, and the first real case studies.
Available now
Volume 2

Model Risk and Effective Challenge

Taking the foundations into review, testing, and documented challenge.
Coming soon
Volume 3

Frameworks in Practice

Applying standards that keep moving, without waiting for them to settle.
Coming soon

What Early Readers Say

Colleagues and students who worked through the manuscript ahead of release.
Most explainers assume I write code. This one assumes I run audits, and that changed everything about how it reads.

Sandra Bailey

Senior GRC Analyst
The chapter on splitting data changed how I read a vendor accuracy number. I asked a different question in my very next review.

Pricy Daniels

Senior IT Auditor
I came in with no technical background at all. By the fourth chapter I could follow what the model was doing and why it mattered.

Tim Wilson

Current student, UST

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UST Online Books is the publishing arm of Unlimited SkiesTech LLC, a CompTIA Authorized Academic Partner listed in the DHS CISA training catalog. The same team behind the GRC coaching and training platform.

You Cannot Govern What You Do Not Understand

Start with Volume 1 and build the literacy your role already expects of you.