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What is Archer?

RSA Archer, from the security, governance, and risk division of RSA Security is an integrated risk management / GRC platform.

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RSA Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations across various departments and …
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Archer - Risk Manager

9 out of 10
December 20, 2021
Incentivized
RSA - Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform used for security PIN to login into the secure firm network, to avoid any data breaches …
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Popular Features

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  • Risk management (11)
    10.0
    100%
  • Incident management (13)
    10.0
    100%
  • GRC policy management (13)
    9.9
    99%
  • Common repository of GRC items (12)
    8.7
    87%
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RSA Archer, from the security, governance, and risk division of RSA Security is an integrated risk management / GRC platform.

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Product Details

Archer Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

RSA Archer, from the security, governance, and risk division of RSA Security is an integrated risk management / GRC platform.

Reviewers rate Risk management and Incident management highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Archer are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

RSA Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations across various departments and functions. Users have reported using the software to streamline business processes, improve efficiency, and address governance and compliance issues.

One of the key use cases of RSA Archer is in the field of security operations. Users have found it effective in monitoring and implementing controls against cyber attacks and threats. The software integrates with all sources of security alerts and incidents, aiding in prevention, detection, and reaction to security incidents impacting confidentiality, availability, and overall security. It provides a comprehensive solution for managing security operations and helps organizations stay vigilant in protecting their assets.

Another significant use case of RSA Archer lies in its ability to address governance and compliance challenges across the enterprise. Users have reported utilizing the platform for policy and business continuity governance, as well as network monitoring through Security Analytics. The software also aids organizations in meeting external legal, regulatory, and contractual information security requirements by providing tools for compliance management. Additionally, RSA Archer helps manage vendor relationships, contracts, and risk policy exceptions, allowing organizations to effectively manage vendor risk.

Internal audit departments have found RSA Archer to be an invaluable tool for tracking company controls, processes, policies, standards, and changes. The software streamlines the internal audit process by providing visibility into controls design and operating effectiveness throughout the entire organization. It also helps track audit finding remediation and facilitates questionnaire completion during the financial reporting process. Through its approval workflow capabilities, RSA Archer improves accuracy and audit trail when dealing with international footprint.

Organizations seeking consolidation of their systems have found value in implementing RSA Archer. By consolidating their in-house built systems onto a common platform, teams benefit from reporting consolidation and collaboration. This allows for more efficient risk management practices across different departments within an organization.

Overall, users have found that RSA Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform provides a comprehensive solution to address various organizational needs such as security operations management, governance and compliance, internal audit, and system consolidation. The software has proven its effectiveness in streamlining processes, improving efficiency, and aiding organizations in meeting their risk and compliance requirements.

Integration Capabilities: Multiple users have expressed their satisfaction with RSA Archer's integration capabilities, stating that it seamlessly connects with various enterprise systems. This has greatly streamlined business processes and eliminated the need for manual data entry.

Comprehensive Control Standards: Many reviewers have commended RSA Archer for its robust control standards and procedures. They appreciate how the platform provides a framework to address multiple regulatory sources, ensuring compliance with various requirements.

User-friendly Interface: Several users have praised RSA Archer as a user-friendly platform with an easy-to-navigate interface. They find it highly accessible and appreciate the ability to customize the platform without requiring programming skills, allowing them to tailor it to their specific business needs.

Insufficient Documentation for Administrators: Users have found the documentation provided for administrators to be lacking, particularly in areas such as workflows, exporting data, and generating reports.

Challenges with User Interface: Many reviewers have criticized the user interface of the Archer platform, stating that it is not intuitive or user-friendly, especially for non-IT users.

Attribute Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The whole organization uses RSA Archer across multiple subsidiaries to document relationships, risks, assets and controls. It effectively links issues to vendor relationships and assets while automating assessments within workflows. The dashboard capability allows for a wide range of customization for multiple types of users, offering a rich KPI experience.
  • RSA Archer provides robust ad-hoc reporting.
  • RSA Archer provides very detailed control over workflows and their customization.
  • RSA Archer provides multiple systems for the different needs of corporate governance.
  • RSA Archer scripts run particularly slow.
  • RSA Archer doesn't leverage calculated fields efficiently.
  • RSA Archer doesn't have pop-up windows or peek windows into hyperlinks.
RSA Archer is fantastic at cataloguing, personalizing assessments, raw reporting, and capacity to add custom fields. It is a little clunky around adding contextual information to notifications, peeking into data before attempting to load pages, quick navigation or determining linked (or sub-linked) relationships. These are all concerns that can either be worked around with an appropriate data scheme or with careful administration of the sub-routines.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (5)
80%
8.0
Common repository of GRC items
100%
10.0
Risk management
80%
8.0
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems
80%
8.0
GRC policy management
70%
7.0
Incident management
70%
7.0
  • RSA Archer has been a great asset in demonstrating compliance to regulators
  • RSA Archer provides whole company coverage, no management of 'seats'
  • RSA Archer has unified all Risk and Compliance team reviews for a cohesive risk outlook.
Microsoft Dynamics is a useful tool with easy integration to toolsets for analytics, and has a remarkable ease of use. The accessibility and discoverability in RSA Archer is more difficult, as sections get densely nested. The search capability in Dynamics is smoother but reliant on complete words being used, whereas RSA Archer searching is full Boolean.
Our RSA Archer team is dedicated to finding solutions for our organization. They haven't mentioned any issues with receiving support with deployment or bug fixes, and generally the platform is very dependable. They are always very excited about delivering a version upgrade and presenting any new features that provide more dashboards or chart types.
The usability is a little lacking because there are sections that allow for comment and for form completion. It is a frequent problem where someone thought they completed an assessment but had not. They often fill in the comments next to the form completion blocks, because they don't select Edit on the assessment to begin input. A more common problem is where the form completion is done, but there are not any prompts to guide the user to change the form status and saving so that the workflow advances.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This software allows us to track our audit finding remediation and complete questionnaires during our financial reporting process. It is administered and was selected by our internal audit group for their primary needs of finding remediation. They offered its use to Finance (no additional cost), for us to complete our financial reporting questionnaires and certifications with our controllers and functional leaders. It solves the business problem of approval workflow for our international footprint. I can’t speak much to the ROI, but can say that the accuracy and audit trail has improved.
  • Approval workflow.
  • Response rating for exceptions.
  • Statistics reporting.
  • Color scheme difficult to read.
  • Eliminate the instance number login.
  • Better navigation.
Well suited for audit finding remediation and questionnaires for business users. Less appropriate when you expect exceptions to be raised because it isn’t interactive enough to send comments in a dialog. We tell users to have the dialog over email to communicate issues. Once everything is communicated and resolved, this tool allows them to sign off and provide an audit trail and reporting.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (3)
36.666666666666664%
3.7
Common repository of GRC items
20%
2.0
GRC policy management
20%
2.0
Incident management
70%
7.0
  • Better compliance.
  • More visibility.
  • Less follow up time.
Better automation and control over process. Better reporting of progress. Better value for our dollar and pricing structure. I like that our costs are not driven by our utilization. This allows us to apply Archer to new areas without the immediate need to justify additional costs. We are able to realize benefits faster and adapt to changing business needs.
Slow response time and new versions don’t make sense at first. We experienced delays when the feature that grades responses didn’t work. We had to wait for the new version and then reconfigure. Good news is that they eventually fixed this feature and it has worked well since. Also, the new color schedule still doesn’t show some buttons for navigation. I’m able to get this to work because I remember where they were on the screen.
Good tool to get the information communicated, approval workflow, and easy to add new findings/questionnaires. Seems to be compatible with different browsers and little downtime. Only request for improvement is to add an export feature with fewer clicks. Maybe batch export.
Yitsy Calero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RSA Archer is being used in the IT department to manage and provide governance over policies and business continuity. It is also being used for network monitoring through the Security Analytics solution. It addresses the governance issues across the enterprise. It allows us to manage all our our BCM documents in an executable and actionable framework.
  • Solution customization
  • Accessibility to information
  • User friendly interface
  • Workflows
  • Exporting Data
  • Reports
RSA Archer is well suited in an environment where actionable governance exists and documentation is required ad-hoc for audit requests. The ability to maintain up to date information in an application allows accuracy to exist in ad-hoc reports.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (5)
60%
6.0
Common repository of GRC items
100%
10.0
Risk management
N/A
N/A
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems
N/A
N/A
GRC policy management
100%
10.0
Incident management
100%
10.0
  • Successfully passed OCC audit by presenting governance and structure in BCM program
  • Involved other departments in the automation of annual policy updates via workflows
  • User Access Management
  • Solution customization
  • Custom Reports
  • Workflows
  • Data Driven Events
  • Role Access Management
Yes, but I don't use it
The platform has a solid structure and overall the solutions have satisfied our needs.
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