RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Receives "Strong Positive" in Leading Analyst Firm's GRCM MarketScope Report

RSA Archer eGRC Suite Receives “Strong Positive” Rating for IT-GRCM; Also Receives “Positive” Rating for Business Continuity MarketScope

BEDFORD, MA – June 16, 2010 – RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that the RSA Archer eGRC Suite received the highest possible rating, “Strong Positive,” in Gartner’s 2010 MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (IT-GRCM)¹. Gartner also rated the RSA Archer Business Continuity Management solution “Positive” in its 2010 MarketScope for Business Continuity Management Planning Software².

“The RSA Archer eGRC Suite provides the broad capabilities organizations require to help manage governance, risk and compliance programs holistically, along with the depth of control they need over individual GRC functions, including business continuity management,” said Jon Darbyshire, Archer general manager for RSA, The Security Division of EMC. “RSA is proud to be recognized in the IT-GRCM industry MarketScope and receive a positive rating in the Business Continuity Management arena.”

IT-GRCM MarketScope

With the acquisition of Archer Technologies in January 2010, EMC’s security division has emerged as a leading provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) solutions built on a common, flexible platform. The RSA Archer eGRC Suite spans IT, finance, operations and legal business domains, enabling organizations to implement a strategic, collaborative and sustainable eGRC program.

According to Gartner’s 2010 IT-GRCM MarketScope, authored by Gartner Vice Presidents and Distinguished Analysts Paul Proctor and Mark Nicolett, “EGRC Platforms serve organizations that take an enterprise approach to compliance and risk management, and that want to have all business units, including the IT organization, on the same GRCM solution.”

The RSA Archer eGRC Suite delivers:

• A comprehensive library of technical and process controls mapped to policies, regulatory requirements and industry guidelines
  
• A central management system for control definition, policy communication, risk analysis, assessments, investigations, ongoing remediation and real-time reporting
  
• Vendor-neutral integration with threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment, security configuration and event management technologies
  
• A flexible platform approach that enables clients to tailor solutions to their evolving business requirements with no custom code
  
• A supporting GRC community with more than 3,800 members who actively share ideas, best practices and applications to drive innovation in GRC program management

Business Continuity Management Planning Software MarketScope

According to Gartner’s 2010 MarketScope for Business Continuity Management Planning Software, authored by Gartner Vice Presidents Roberta Witty and Tom Scholtz, “Having current and effective recovery plans is the key to success during a disaster, and these tools are ‘ground zero’ for effective crisis and business recovery.”

The RSA Archer Business Continuity Management solution provides a centralized, automated approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, allowing organizations to respond effectively in crisis situations to protect their ongoing operations. As a core component of the RSA Archer eGRC Suite, the solution supports integration of business continuity into a larger governance, risk and compliance program, enabling consistent measurement and reporting of risk across the enterprise.

More information on the RSA Archer eGRC Suite and Business Continuity Management solution is available at http://www.archer.com/solutions/index.html.

About the Gartner MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

¹Gartner “MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management,” by Paul E. Proctor and Mark Nicolett. 29 April 2010.

²Gartner “MarketScope for Business Continuity Management Planning Software,” by Roberta J. Witty and Tom Scholtz. 13 May 2010.

About RSA

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world’s leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA’s information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.

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