RSA Compliance Advisor
Regulatory obligations keep expanding. GDPR, HIPAA, CJIS, NIST, POPIA—each carries dozens to hundreds of individual requirements, and each one needs to be mapped to real controls, tracked against real evidence, and reported when auditors ask. For most security and governance teams, that work is still largely manual: requirements interpreted by hand, evidence chased across systems, reports built in spreadsheets.
The result is compliance fatigue—high effort, slow answers, and limited confidence that the program reflects what the regulation actually requires.
RSA Compliance Advisor, part of RSA Governance & Lifecycle, uses AI to close that gap. Read on for the key questions answered below.
Regulations are not static documents. Requirements get revised, new frameworks are introduced, and interpretations shift as enforcement evolves. A governance program built on a manual mapping done two years ago carries silent risk—every change to the regulation that wasn’t caught and re-mapped is a gap the next audit could surface.
The core problem isn’t effort—it’s the speed at which the regulatory landscape changes relative to how quickly manual programs can respond. When every update to a regulation requires a compliance expert to re-read the text, re-interpret the requirements, and re-map them to controls, most organizations fall behind. RSA Compliance Advisor addresses this directly: when RSA updates a supported regulation in the product, it remaps automatically to your controls—without your team having to re-interpret the changes.
RSA Compliance Advisor uses AI to read regulatory text and map each requirement to the identity governance controls your organization already has in place. It then measures your posture against each requirement on a continuous basis—not just when you pull a report—and tells your team exactly which controls are underperforming and what to do about it.
Every mapped requirement links directly to the regulation’s original text, so your team can verify the mapping against the source rather than taking a vendor’s word for it. The result is a compliance program that actively improves between audits rather than one that documents where you stood at the last one. Download the solution brief for the full capability breakdown, dashboard walkthrough, and details on how to request a demo or start a free trial.
Compliance Advisor currently maps the following regulations and frameworks to the requirement level:
- GDPR. General Data Protection Regulation
- CJIS. Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy
- HIPAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- POPIA. Protection of Personal Information Act
- NIST CSF 2.0. NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Support for DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) and additional regulations is planned for upcoming releases. RSA adds new regulations on an ongoing basis—so the coverage expands without requiring your team to build new mappings from scratch.
CISOs and IAM leaders who need to move from measuring compliance to actively improving it—with clear, prioritized guidance on what to fix rather than a score to explain to the board.
Compliance and audit teams who spend too much time gathering evidence and generating reports, and too little time on the analysis and remediation that actually reduces risk.
Government agencies and financial institutions operating under multiple overlapping regulatory frameworks, where the volume of requirements exceeds what in-house expertise can interpret and track manually.
Compliance Advisor runs inside RSA Governance & Lifecycle, RSA’s identity governance and administration solution trusted by more than 9,000 security-first organizations to manage over 60 million identities worldwide.
RSA Compliance Advisor is an AI-native capability within RSA Governance & Lifecycle that maps regulatory requirements to your identity governance controls and continuously measures your compliance posture against them. When your posture falls short of a requirement, it identifies the underperforming control and recommends the specific action to close the gap—removing the manual interpretation and evidence-gathering work that drives compliance fatigue.
When a regulation supported by Compliance Advisor is revised, RSA updates it in the product and it automatically remaps to your governance controls—your team does not need to re-interpret the changes or rebuild the mapping manually. This is a significant improvement over spreadsheet-based compliance tracking, where every regulatory update requires a compliance expert to work through the changes by hand.
Compliance Advisor currently supports GDPR, CJIS Security Policy, HIPAA, POPIA, and NIST CSF 2.0—each mapped to the individual requirement level. Support for DORA and additional regulations is in progress, and RSA adds new frameworks on an ongoing basis. The solution brief includes the full current list and planned additions.
Periodic reviews measure compliance at a single point in time—which means gaps that emerge between reviews remain invisible until the next one. Continuous compliance monitoring tracks posture against each regulatory requirement on an ongoing basis, surfacing gaps as they appear rather than when an auditor arrives to look for them. RSA Compliance Advisor refreshes posture scores on the schedule your team sets, closing the window between when a gap opens and when it’s found.
Yes. CJIS Security Policy is one of the five regulations currently supported, and government agencies are one of the primary target groups for the product—alongside financial institutions operating under multiple overlapping frameworks. RSA Governance & Lifecycle is already trusted by government and high-assurance organisations globally, and Compliance Advisor extends that platform with AI-driven regulatory mapping.
Compliance Advisor is a capability within RSA Governance & Lifecycle, not a standalone product—it runs directly inside the platform and maps to the governance controls Governance & Lifecycle already manages. Organizations that already use RSA Governance & Lifecycle can access Compliance Advisor without additional infrastructure; those new to the platform can request a demo or start a free trial.
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