McAfee and RSA, the security division of EMC recently announced a
new joint solution based on their existing technology
partnership. This joint solution integrates security data
from the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform (McAfee ePO) with
business infrastructure and compliance data in the RSA ArcherTM
eGRC platform and the RSA Archer Enterprise Management
solution. By connecting this data, customers can better
leverage business information together with security data to gain a
deeper understanding of risk and compliance issues.
“The McAfee and RSA solution provides greater visibility into
the state of security and compliance across the enterprise
infrastructure and enables a more comprehensive understanding of
the business’ risk and compliance posture,” said Dave
Anderson, senior director of Security Management at McAfee.
“The integration allows organizations to utilize McAfee
security management products to manage system level security while
also incorporating data and findings from those products into their
risk and compliance management processes within the RSA Archer eGRC
Platform.”
“Both IT and security organizations are facing challenges
today managing a myriad of tools and data that help them protect
and keep the business up and running,” said David Walter,
senior director of RSA, The Security Division of EMC.
“This integrated offering provides customers the opportunity
to improve IT-GRC programs with information from security
management processes. The Archer eGRC platform understands business
criticality – adding this enables customers to prioritize the
issues being documented in McAfee ePO against their business
objectives. This enables better business decisions about
where resources are placed, resulting in an effective risk-based
way to respond quickly to new threats, address program deficiencies
and reduce vulnerabilities across all domains and lines of business
in the enterprise.”
RSA Archer Enterprise Management is engineered to provide a central
repository of information on enterprise’s business hierarchy
and operational infrastructure. This web-based solution allows
enterprises to develop an aggregate view of organizational
divisions, determine the criticality of supporting technologies,
and use that information in the context of eGRC processes.
McAfee ePO enables organizations to centrally manage their
enterprise security posture through an open framework that unifies
security management for systems, applications, networks, data, and
compliance solutions.
The integration can populate the devices application within RSA
Archer with systems in the infrastructure being managed by McAfee
ePO. This ongoing synchronization helps ensure that device/platform
level information is consistent between GRC processes and IT
operations. Within the devices application in the RSA Archer eGRC
platform, customers can gain visibility into ownership and
relationship to business processes and applications for a better
understanding of the criticality of the issues captured from ePO
and the appropriate accountability to ensure proper and timely
response.
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