Attackers keep inventing new ways to sneak past multi-factor authentication (MFA) with advanced AI-driven attacks, including session hijacking, help desk scams, and social engineering, or fraud. Traditional rules and static access policies can’t keep up.
RSA Risk AI is the intelligent layer of RSA ID Plus that spots these attacks in real time and stops them before they start. The solution uses machine learning and over 30 risk signals, like behavioral analytics and business context, for smarter access protection and easier user access.
When a user requests access to an organization’s resources, RSA Risk AI responds by instantly analyzing past and present user behavior, assessing the business context for the request, and performing real-time risk scoring. With this extensive intelligence, the technology establishes a level of confidence in the user’s identity—and determines whether it should grant access.
RSA Risk AI is a risk engine that uses deterministic machine learning to get smarter over time. In the process of gathering information for access decisions, Risk AI builds a store of knowledge to inform risk scoring for future access requests. It constantly recalibrates based on what it has learned in the past and what it observes in the present to make optimal access decisions.
- Stop advanced identity attacks fast: Real‑time confidence scores block or step‑up risky logins, stopping attacks before they start.
- Let good users glide: Fewer needless prompts mean happier users and lighter help‑desk queues.
- See risk, act quickly: Clear High/Low scores and “why” details turn alerts into instant action.
- Set‑and‑forget protection: Self‑tuning models and unified policy orchestration slash rule‑maintenance work.
- Continuous Zero Trust validation: Enforce least‑privilege access all day, every day, without blind spots or drift.
- Anticipate—and learn from—anomalies: Admins can manually adjust identity confidence thresholds to account for and learn from planned anomalies like travel, mergers, or significant numbers of new users
- Your data, your model: Each organization runs a private Risk AI instance that learns only from your organization’s activity; nothing is shared with RSA.
As Risk AI becomes increasingly familiar with users’ behavior and the context for their access requests, the users themselves experience fewer authentication challenges. At the same time, security remains strong, with Risk AI detecting any anomalies and responding accordingly, either by requesting more information or denying the request if the level of risk warrants it.
Admins can adjust the identity-confidence threshold to account for expected anomalies. Risk AI continues to score each request in real time; access policies use that score plus the temporary adjustment to decide whether to allow, step up, or deny.
When it helps
- Planned events: office moves, travel, device rollouts, payroll cutovers, red-team exercises.
- Short-term changes in behavior that would otherwise trigger extra prompts.
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