Risk Manager architecture

The risk dashboard provides a unified view of disparate risk metrics from multiple sources and multiple vectors of security to provide a high-level overview of your organization's risk posture.

The following diagram represents IBM® Security Risk Manager high-level architecture.

The risk engine computes the risk score of every asset by using the Threat, Vulnerability, and Asset Risk components. The following formula is used to evaluate the risk score.

Risk = Asset Criticality x Threat x Vulnerability

The risk feeds from various security products are imported into Risk Manager by using the core services such as Universal Data Insights and Connected Assets and Risk.

The risk engine uses the risk feeds from different sources to compute the risk score based on the assigned weight for various risk factors. Then, the aggregated risk data is presented in the form of risk areas on the dashboard. A risk area is a logical group of threats of similar nature that are aggregated from various security products. The dashboard helps you to focus on the most critical risk areas for implementing appropriate remediation actions to reduce the identified risks.