EMC Corp. has announced plans to acquire Archer Technologies LLC, to expand EMC's portfolio into risk management and policy enforcement for ongoing compliance projects.

"Overland Park, Kansas-based Archer competes against Agiliance Inc., SailPoint Technologies Inc. and Symantec Corp., offering a suite of tools that are used to manage compliance initiatives from conducting risk assessments to setting controls and documenting them for auditors," writes SearchSecurity.com's Robert Westervelt.

"Archer's software will be wrapped into EMC's product portfolio, offered as a standalone product and will operate under EMC's RSA security division," Westervelt writes.

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