This week EMC introduced a new unified platform for managing governance, risk and compliance across the enterprise, which represents the culmination of a strategy it began last year when it purchased Archer Technologies' risk, governance and compliance platform.

The idea behind the solution is to provide a single, rules-based environment in which a company can set up rules for managing risk and compliance whether the system is one of EMC's or another vendor's. 

Pat Gelsinger, president and chief operating officer of EMC Information Infrastructure Products says it's becoming increasingly difficult to manage compliance and risk across large dispersed organizations. "The risks organizations must manage continue to become more complex and intertwined every day," he says.

Alex Bender, director of GRC Programs Strategy at RSA, the security division of EMC, says that the new solution allows users to articulate their strategy and tie policies back to different systems. He adds, "The platform because it's flexible allows you to focus in different areas. From a security perspective, the solution enables incident management and tracking capabilities to allow a security organization to look at prioritization and get rid of noise and save time and effort against incident tracking."

The system consists of four elements: Business solutions to build governance and compliance across different units, information governance to manage risk and eDiscovery efforts, business continuity and disaster recovery, and advanced security management.

The solution combines EMC consulting services, the Archer Technologies platform and a business community to help companies address growing risk, compliance and governance issues.

For more information:
- see the EMC press release

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