Accessing Risk Manager

Review the information in this section to find out how to access IBM® Security Risk Manager and features of the basic and advanced versions of Risk Manager.

Accessing Risk Manager

To access the Risk Manager application, complete the following steps:
  1. On the home page, click Risk Manager.
  2. Alternatively, on the home page, click the Menu icon.
  3. In the My applications section, click Risk Manager > Risk Dashboard.
To access the Risk Manager operational modules, complete the following steps:
  1. On the home page, click the Menu icon.
  2. In the Application settings section, click Risk Manager.

Risk Manager Basic

The base version of the Risk Manager application provides the following features:
  • Risk dashboard for viewing correlated and contextual visualization of risk areas.

    For more information about the dashboard, see Security risk visualization.

  • Ability to import threat events and asset data into Risk Manager from the source products for which you created and configured the data source connections to analyze and compute the risk score.

    For more information about the supported source products, see Asset and data source connections.

  • Risk score computation by the risk engine that uses the system-defined risk profile with default risk configuration values to calculate the score.

    For more information about risk configuration, see Risk configuration.

  • Basic version of IBM X-Force® Red Vulnerability Management Services (VMS) is enabled to enrich only 250 unique vulnerabilities per day.

    For more information about the supported source products, see Asset and data source connections.

Risk Manager Advanced

The Risk Manager Advanced application provides the following features:
  • Prescriptive recommendations to implement remedial actions in accordance with the risk severity for reducing the identified risks. The Case Management application is integrated to create cases for managing risk remediation activities.

    For more information about recommendations, see Recommendations.

  • Risk trend view to see how the risk score of a specific risk area changes over a period to track its progress. You can view the trend for the last 30 days data.

    For more information about risk trend, see Analyzing a risk area.

  • Custom risk configuration to assign a weight to various risk factors that are sourced from different products for computing the risk score. You can customize your risk profile based on how important a particular risk factor is for your organization.

    For more information about risk configuration settings, see Configuring risk settings.