We performed a comparison between Amazon Inspector and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Vendor Risk Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."
"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."
"The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."
"The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option."
"The product is very flexible."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"The integrated data model of a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship is quite useful."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"Makes auditing much more convenient."
"RSA Archer is a good tool and I have found performing the application, ISMS, and TPRM assessments beneficial."
"The last project was for an investment group that was using Excel. Shifting their records from one position to another took approximately 15 minutes. In Archer, we created a workflow for them to leverage it, and they could send the single record with one click to one person within seconds. The whole process went from 15 minutes to two minutes to get the approval for the records. The main purpose of Archer is to just make it easy."
"One of the useful features is the ability to connect to various systems in order to accommodate data."
"It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents."
"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."
"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."
"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."
"There were so many problems that we had found. One time, the search index was not working. We also faced slowness in Archer, but I resolved this issue."
"Some of the error reporting isn't very clear. When you're looking for information on error codes, you got to do a lot of digging."
"The first improvement I would suggest for RSA Archer is a better search feature. The search criteria needs to be improved. Sometimes I do a search and the search doesn't return the exact item I'm looking for. RSA Archer could also be improved by being more user-friendly. Maybe I have been using a limited version of RSA Archer, but I'm not sure whether it has ESG, environmental and social governance. In the next couple of years, ESG is the next feature that will be integrated into GRC tools. I would recommend RSA Archer adds ESG."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
"In a future release, there should be an option to upload the main data."
"GUI could be improved."
"Slow turnaround time from support team."
"The user interface needs work. There are many small text boxes, like credit card size's boxes, where we need to input a lot of text. You can't see what you're typing beyond the tiny window, so you have to scroll or type elsewhere and copy-paste it. It's very inconvenient."
Amazon Inspector is ranked 6th in IT Vendor Risk Management with 4 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in IT Vendor Risk Management with 38 reviews. Amazon Inspector is rated 7.8, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Inspector writes "Primarily focuses on security of EC2 instances, provides point-in-time assessments rather than real time protection but provides automated vulnerability detection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Amazon Inspector is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Nessus, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Cloud Security and JFrog Xray, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Workiva Wdesk. See our Amazon Inspector vs. RSA Archer report.
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