RSA Archer® IT & Security Risk Management
Reduce the risk of security threats, poorly defined security practices, and operational security compliance failures.
- Recognized as a leader in the Gartner® 2017 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management
- Build your IT and security risk program and establish your IT controls and compliance framework
- Establish your IT controls and compliance framework

RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management
Learn how RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management can help you reduce the risk of security threats, poor or misaligned security practices, and operational security compliance failures.

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Solution Brief
RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management
This solution brief provides an overview of RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management, which includes use cases for Cyber Risk Quantification, Cyber Incident & Breach Response, PCI Management, IT & Security Policy Program Management, IT Security Vulnerabilities Program Management, IT Regulatory Management, IT Risk Management, and IT Controls Assurance.
Features
Connect Cybersecurity Risks in the Context of GRC
Effectively address the complexity and cascading impact of rapidly changing cybersecurity risks. Connect your security processes and data with risk and compliance functions across the enterprise. Establish the relationship between business risk and IT risk.
Bridge Business Context and Process Enablement
Keep the business secure by establishing clear alignment between the business and IT to ensure business security priorities are consistently addressed. Bridge the gaps between people and technology through repeatable processes to identify and escalate emerging business risk conditions efficiently and effectively.
Address IT and Security Risk Management Through Multiple Dimensions
Organize your security risk program in such a way that you can manage the full spectrum of IT security risks, from vulnerabilities and advanced attack threats, to corporate governance and IT compliance obligations.
Quantify IT and Cyber Security Risk in Financial Terms
Communicate the impact of IT and cyber security risk in financial terms to the board and senior management and prioritize risk mitigation efforts based on business and financial impact.
Benefits
Establish and track reliable quantitative financial and data metrics to inform an executive-level understanding of cyber security and cyber risk postures
Reduce the complexity and cascading impact of rapidly changing cybersecurity risks.
Align IT and security processes and policies with higher-level directional strategies to reduce operational risk and support business growth initiatives.
Mitigate the financial, operational and reputational impacts of a cyber attack through early detection and accelerated cyber incident response.
Improve your organization’s overall risk posture by gaining greater visibility into cybersecurity risks across your enterprise.
Obtain the information and insights needed to effectively manage your organization’s portfolio of cyber security and other strategic technology investments
RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management
RSA Archer IT & Security Policy Program Management
Establish a scalable and flexible system of governance to manage corporate and regulatory policies and to ensure alignment with compliance obligations. Document policies and standards, assign ownership, and map policies to key business areas and objectives.
RSA Archer IT Risk Management
Capture a complete catalog of business and IT assets for IT risk management purposes. Leverage the IT risk register, pre-built risk and threat assessment methodologies, IT control libraries and more.
RSA Archer IT Security Vulnerabilities Program
Offers security teams a big data approach to identifying and prioritizing high-risk cyber threats. Proactively manage IT security risks by understanding the criticality of various assets to business operations and by combining those insights with actionable threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment results and comprehensive workflows.
RSA Archer Cyber Incident & Breach Response
Centrally catalog organizational and IT assets, establishing business context to drive incident prioritization and implement processes designed to escalate, investigate, and resolve declared incidents effectively.
RSA Archer Cyber Risk Quantification
Quantify an organization’s financial risk exposure to IT and cybersecurity events leveraging the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology for quantitative risk management. Prioritize risk mitigation efforts based on business and financial impact and communicate the impact of cyber risk in financial terms to the board and senior management.
RSA Archer IT Controls Assurance
Assess and report on the performance of IT controls across all assets, and automate control assessments and monitoring. Reduce the cost of IT compliance and the risk of compliance-related audit findings by implementing a consistent process for testing IT controls. Establish clear accountability for remediating compliance gaps.
RSA Archer IT Regulatory Management
Stay on top of the constantly changing regulatory landscape, meet compliance requirements and reduce risk. Get an accurate, real-time picture of the state of regulatory compliance across your organization, and understand the impact of regulatory changes on your IT assets, IT controls and related business processes.
RSA Archer PCI Management
Streamline the PCI compliance process, simplify stakeholder participation and decrease overall compliance effort and cost. Reduce the risk of credit card fraud and identity theft by implementing an effective PCI compliance program, and reduce the risk of costly penalties due to non-compliance.
RSA Archer Information Security Management System (ISMS)
Accelerate the ISO 27001 certification process. Quickly scope your ISMS and document your Statement of Applicability for reporting and verification. Understand relationships between information assets and manage changes to the security infrastructure with a centralized view of your ISMS.
Los Angeles World Airports Chief Information Security Officer Anson Fong discusses why this large city department that owns and operates three airports turned to RSA Archer to help shorten incident response times by centralizing security and risk data.

Resources
Analyst Reports
- Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of RSA Archer IT GRC The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework for evaluating the potential impact of an IT GRC software implementation on their organizations.
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management Download a complimentary copy of the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
- Transforming Information Security: Insights from the Security for Business Innovation Council Get seven recommendations for building a state-of-the-art, extended security team, from top CISOs at Global 1000 organizations.
- Building a State-of-the-Art Extended Security Team Top CISOs from Global 1000 organizations explain why the cybersecurity function should be a cross-organizational endeavor, with security processes deeply embedded into business processes.
- Future-Proofing Security Processes: Synopsis Members of the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) offer recommendations for creating security processes capable of withstanding evolving threats.
- Future-Proofing Security Processes: Full Report Keeping pace with cyber threats and the latest business and technology trends requires overhauling information security processes, according to CISO members of the Security for Business Innovation Council.
Data Sheets
- RSA Archer IT Security Vulnerabilities Program This data sheet provides an overview of RSA Archer IT Security Vulnerabilities Program, a use case for RSA Archer IT & Security Risk Management.
White Papers
- RSA Archer Maturity Model Snapshot: IT & Security Risk Management RSA Archer Maturity Models guide organizations through the journey from baseline risk management to optimized processes that balance opportunities and risks. View the Maturity Model Snapshot to discover the stages of maturing your IT security processes.
Webcasts
- Business Risk Management Part 1: Communicating the Business Impact of Risk View part one of this two-part webcast series to understand how organizations can make better risk management decisions by understanding and communicating information security in terms of overall business impact.
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