How to Automate Vendor Risk at Scale with the RSA Archer and SecurityScorecard Integration

Scale Vendor Oversight with Real-Time Monitoring in Archer

Managing thousands of third-party vendors is no longer a once-a-year project. GRC teams need scalable, real-time oversight and detailed risk intelligence, without growing headcount. The integration of SecurityScorecard with RSA Archer solves this by embedding objective cybersecurity ratings directly into the GRC platform. This gives risk teams the speed to scale and the depth to scrutinize every vendor relationship.

By embedding objective cybersecurity ratings and data directly into the Archer platform, this solution allows organizations to scale and enhance their VRM programs. The result is a unified approach that moves beyond basic compliance, providing deeper insights into enterprise and third-party cyber risk.

How RSA Archer and SecurityScorecard Streamline TPRM

The complexity of modern supply chains demands a monitoring solution that is both real-time and scalable. The integration shifts the TPRM process from periodic checking to continuous, automated oversight.

How RSA Archer and SecurityScorecard Streamline TPRM

The integration between SecurityScorecard and RSA Archer offers immediate efficiency and scaling advantages:

• Scale GRC and VRM Programs: The solution enables teams to continuously monitor thousands of vendors in one platform, eliminating the need to toggle between systems to check status. This allows the VRM program to grow without adding headcount or increasing cost.
• Rapid Deployment: The out-of-the-box integration can be deployed directly from the RSA Archer Exchange, often implemented in less than 2 hours by Archer administrators. This rapid deployment ensures immediate time-to-value for the GRC program.
• Total Operational Command: The integration streamlines the oversight of vendor relationships by automatically pulling SecurityScorecard’s cybersecurity ratings into existing vendor profiles in Archer. This ensures SecurityScorecard data sits directly alongside internal vendor information, putting the necessary context in one place.

Drill into Vendor Cyber Risk with Issue-Level Data

Mastering vendor risk requires more than a simple pass or fail grade. It requires granular data to inform mitigation strategy. The integration ensures that analysts gain the necessary scrutiny by providing deep, layered data access directly within the Archer interface.

Use Factor-Level SecurityScorecard Data in Archer

The integration goes far beyond a top-level score, delivering objective data at multiple layers:

• Comprehensive Data Access: Archer users gain access to SecurityScorecard’s factor-level and issue-level ratings data. This includes syncing portfolios, industry factor scores, historical data, and event logs.
• Drill-Down Capabilities: Users can drill into company scores to view factor-level grades, issue counts, risks, and recommendations across each of their vendors in Archer. This deep insight is essential for challenging vendor attestations and prioritizing specific, high-impact remediation efforts
• Informed Decision Making: This data allows teams to see instantly which suppliers pose the greatest risk to their business, facilitating faster risk documentation and action directly in Archer.

How To Automate TPRM Workflows and Stakeholder Reporting

The final phase of risk mastery involves automating response and communicating risk effectively to stakeholders and auditors. By integrating SecurityScorecard and RSA Archer, teams gain the ability to build customized workflows to best support their stakeholder reporting needs.

Trigger Custom Alerts and Build Risk Reports Inside Archer

• Create Automatic Alerts and Follow-ups: The platform sends automatic alerts when scores change and the team can track the follow-up status entirely within Archer. Teams can configure Archer reports and alerts around score changes, customizing monitoring assessments and notification actions to operationalize SecurityScorecard ratings.
• Stakeholder Reporting: The integration ensures clear, actionable communication. By leveraging Archer’s built-in reporting capabilities, GRC teams can communicate third-party risk combined with SecurityScorecard’s easy-to-understand A-F grades. This provides executive stakeholders with a more comprehensive view of the threat landscape in a language everyone understands.
• Customized Interactions: Teams use this SecurityScorecard data (such as scores, issue-level details, and alerts) to launch customized workflows, calculate residual risk, and drive aggregated vendor risk reports within Archer.

Scale and Scrutinize Vendor Risk with GRC Automation

The RSA Archer and SecurityScorecard integration gives risk teams the tools to scale oversight and act on real-time vendor risk intelligence. From customized alerts to board-ready risk reports, this integration moves Third-Party Risk Management from reactive to strategic. Teams gain control, reduce exposure, and prove performance with verifiable data at every step.

With real-time ratings and automated workflows inside Archer, your team can scale vendor oversight without losing depth. That same approach applies across your broader compliance and regulatory obligations. If you want to see how continuous risk intelligence strengthens GRC outcomes end to end, take the next step with SecurityScorecard.