GRC veteran membership: everything the Club offers, for $35
For service members and veterans moving from the military into a cybersecurity or GRC career, where frameworks and chains of accountability already feel familiar. Your first year is $35 instead of $70, under $3 a month. Same certifications, same labs, same community. Confirm your military email and the code is yours in about a minute.
What membership costs
Monthly
$9.99 /mo
Month to month. Cancel whenever.
Annual
$70 /yr
The standard rate. Two months cheaper than paying monthly.
Veteran
$35 /yr
50% off your first year, $35 saved. Verified military email required. Renews at $70.
What $35 a year gets you
Every certification
CGE-P, CGE-AUD, and CGE-AZ are all included, not sold separately.
Hands-on cloud labs
Real AWS and Azure compliance work you can point at in an interview.
The private podcast
Practitioners talking about what the job is actually like.
A local chapter
Meet GRC people in your city. Several chapters sit next to major bases.
Mock interviews
Practise the interview before it counts.
The community
1,300+ GRC professionals who answer questions in Slack.
Confirm your military email
We send a link to your .mil address. Clicking it is how we know you are serving or transitioning out, so there is no DD-214 to upload, no ID.me, and no form to fill in.
What $35 a year gets you as a veteran
Club membership is $70 per year, or $9.99 a month. Every certification in the Training Academy is included. Bought one at a time, the three current certifications are $350 each, so $1,050 of credentials come with a membership that costs less than most single exam vouchers.
Students and transitioning veterans pay $35 for their first year with a verified school email or .mil email.
- CGE-P, CGE-AUD, CGE-AZ: training, labs, exam, and certificate, no exam fee
- Hands-on AWS and Azure compliance labs you build in your own account
- Weekly private podcast and live Q&A with working GRC engineers
- Mock interviews, playbooks, and live builder sessions
- Local chapters and a Slack of 1,600+ GRC professionals
- 4 CPE hours a month (48 a year) logged to your transcript, earned through articles, live Q&As, recordings, labs, and courses, to self-report to ISC2, ISACA, IAPP, or GIAC
Veteran Membership FAQ
Serving and transitioning military members pay $35 for their first year instead of $70, a saving of $35. You verify with your .mil email address. After the first year, membership renews at the regular $70 a year.
We send a link to your .mil address and you click it. That is the whole check. No DD-214 upload, no ID.me, no third-party verification service.
Email hello@grcengclub.com from any address with proof of service (a redacted DD-214 or your VA ID card) and we will issue your code by hand, usually within a business day. The .mil check is the fast path, not the only path.
Yes. Same certifications, same labs, same chapters, same community. The veteran rate changes the price and nothing else.
Your first year is $35 and it renews at the standard $70 a year, which is the same thing every other member pays. Cancel any time before renewal if you would rather not continue.
If you have a .mil address, yes. The rate exists for people moving from service into a GRC career, and we are not going to audit how close to the door you are.
No. The Club is not a VA-approved or COOL-listed training provider, so GI Bill and credentialing-assistance funds cannot be applied. The veteran rate is how we lower the cost instead: $35 for the first year, with every certification, lab, and exam included at no extra charge.
GRC is governance, risk, and compliance: helping an organization meet frameworks like NIST, FedRAMP, and CMMC and prove it. Service members already know how to live inside a framework, document to a standard, and own a chain of accountability, which is most of the job. Members with military backgrounds have moved into GRC analyst, compliance engineer, and FedRAMP roles; the GRC for Veterans guide linked below covers the twelve months before and after separation.
Start for $35
Not in the military? Annual membership is $70 and gets you exactly the same thing.