RSA, the security division of EMC, has announced new RSA Archer GRC offerings, enhancing the user experience for all RSA Archer solutions. New features are engineered to include a walk-up friendly, task-driven user interface and drag-and-drop advanced workflow capabilities to make risk management easy and effective for all “three lines of defence” – business users, risk managers, and the audit team.
Additionally, new features have been added to RSA Archer Operational Risk Management to help streamline how organisations identify, assess, respond, and monitor existing and emerging risks.
Given the increasing volume of risk and the velocity at which it continues to emerge, business units must increasingly act as the first line of defence for risk management and be more directly involved in the identification, assessment and remediation of risk.
Since they have the best knowledge of what is going on within their business unit, business unit managers can more easily identify changes in the risk environment and their impact on the business. However, this requires intuitive technology that allows business managers to quickly view, assess and understand risks, metric warnings and loss events to respond rapidly and intelligently.
RSA Archer GRC’s new task-driven interface is designed to offer a tailored user experience for this first line of defence, helping business unit users to prioritise and focus on the tasks with greatest impact on business priorities and due dates.
New advanced configuration options also are engineered to allow business unit managers to view a history of their risk activity, configure key reports, and customise action buttons to quickly access specific risk-related actions from a single dashboard.
Trying to get a clear risk picture across an organisation is very challenging. RSA Archer Operational Risk Management is designed to provide a holistic risk vantage point, with business context tracked across risk use cases. Now, business units can inventory and map the business entities, assets, products, services, and processes that have the highest impact on the bottom line, and use the RSA Archer solution as an end-to-end risk management framework to help identify, assess, treat, and monitor existing and emerging operational risks.
RSA Archer GRC’s new advanced workflow capabilities also are built to enable risk managers and business unit managers to quickly adjust risk management processes without touching a line of code, additionally creating cost and time saving opportunities.
Additionally, RSA Archer Operational Risk Management now is designed to make it easier for risk managers to manage assessment campaigns, track metrics and loss events, and report on risk with thousands of out-of-the-box reports, risk analytics, dashboards and an ad hoc reporting tool. This helps provide business units and risk managers with a thorough understanding of the risk environment, and enables more effective communication of the potential impact risk could have on the business – both good and bad – to executive management. By proactively linking risk management to business objectives, risk can be harnessed and become a new source of competitive advantage.
“Risk is no longer just the responsibility of executives. To keep up with the uncertainty and complexity triggered by rapid changes in business today, organisations are decentralising risk management to put it as close as possible to the risk itself. As front line employees are being asked to contribute more towards risk management, we have focused heavily on usability in the new RSA Archer 6.0 platform. By tailoring the user experience, RSA Archer GRC is engineered to give business users and risk managers a common communication framework and the ability to more easily leverage comprehensive data to detect, assess and respond to known and emerging risks,” said Grant Geyer, Senior Vice President of Products, RSA.
Features and functionality delivered in the latest RSA Archer GRC offerings will be available only for new, on-premises installations on November 10, 2015.
