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Archer Plan of Action &Milestones (POA&M) Management®

Use Case for Public Sector Solutions
The Challenge

Whether collecting critical asset information through assessment and authorization (A&A),
control assessments, audits, or continuous monitoring (CM) with scanners and sensors, yourorganization accumulates scattered lists of defects and findings in various documents.
Information assurance (IA) stakeholders have no consolidated view of outstanding issues.
Additionally, limited documentation on current and planned remediation efforts leaves gaps
in understanding what is being done to mitigate and address open defects and risks. Risk
acceptance requests often lack the proper review, approval, and documentation to ensure
understanding of how e xceptions or deviations affect the organization’s overall risk.
The negative impacts of poor issues management begin with l ack of visibility or accountability
in addressing known risks. Missed issues can fall through the cracks, resulting in repeat audit
findings and failed control asse ssments or lingering risks to the organization. Remediation efforts
can suffer as well, with missed deadlines or poorly planned remediation of identified risks.

Overview
Archer Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) Management allows organizations to lay thefoundation for your IA program to manage issues generated by audit, A&A, and CM processes.
You can effectively establish the organizational structure and assign accountability for risk
and compliance issues. It provides the applications to create, approve and manage POA&Ms
and risk acceptance requests to address risks and associated resolutions.
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With Archer POA&M Management, organizations gain a consolidated view into known issues
and you can break down remediation efforts to better understand timing, milestones, and costs.
It provides capabilities to route POA&Ms through formal review and approval processes andcapture performance management and cost metrics. With an organized, managed process
to automatically escalate issues, you get visibility into known risks as well as efforts to addressand close risks. Your organization will see quicker reaction to emerging risks, creating a moresecure and resilient environment while reducing costs.

Benefits

Features• Consolidated issues management process.
• Consolidated list of defects and findings from audits
		 and A&A and CM processes.

With Archer POA&M Management, organizations can:• Reduce time to resolution on audit, risk and compliance issues.
• Improve staffing management for remediating issues.

• Consolidated list of POA&Ms with status, progress, and		 expiration dates.
• Managed risk acceptance requests with informed		review/approval.

• Reduce overtime/reactive overload for operational staff
		 responding to issues.
• Reduce repeat findings and overall risk.

About Archer
Archer is a leading provider of integrated risk management (IRM) solutions that enable customers to improve strategic decision-making
and operational resilience with a modern technology platform that supports qualitative and quantitative analysis driven by both businessand IT impacts. As true pioneers in GRC software, Archer remains solely dedicated to helping customers manage risk and compliancedomains, from traditional operational risk to emerging issues such as ESG. With over 20 years in the risk management industry, theArcher customer base represents one of the largest pure risk management communities globally, with more than 1,200 customers
including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
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