Summary

RSA continues to provide our customers with great features, community-driven enhancements, new solution capabilities, performance improvements, product updates and general fixes for our RSA Governance & Lifecycle product offering. Customers can take advantage of these qualities by making sure their deployments are up-to-date and running the latest product version, found here: RSA Governance & Lifecycle Documentation.

RSA would like to remind customers who are using a 7.5.2 version of RSA Governance & Lifecycle that it will reach End of Primary Support (EOPS) on July 31st, 2025 – please refer to the Product Version Life Cycle for RSA Governance & Lifecycle page for additional details.

Recommendation

RSA strongly recommends and encourages customers to upgrade to the latest release. A wealth of information on the current release, blog writings, knowledge base articles and product focused advisories can be found on the RSA Governance & Lifecycle community page.

The community includes everything you need from technical guides to knowledge base articles, along with blogs/videos about the new version plus a Q&A section, so you can interact with RSA team members and other RSA clients directly.

Refer to the following page, as a starting point for learning about changes in the latest release:

RSA Governance & Lifecycle 8.0.0 Release Notes 

For additional information on the most recent release, please review the  Announcement Advisory, which includes the following improvement areas: 

• Advanced Dashboards – Advanced Dashboards highlight critical risks and improve the speed and quality of decision-making through data analysis and visualization. These actionable dashboards include drill-down and dynamic filtering capabilities to quickly discover problem areas that need attention.
• Risk Engine – Spots the trends and risks that are aligned with your business needs using our configurable Risk Engine.
• Gamification – New gamification feature promotes faster stakeholder reviews which help to reduce risk and increase security. This is accomplished by using leaderboards, horse race charts, and badges or awards that encourage a security culture.
• Upgrade & Migration – The new pre-migration assessment procedure improves the migration process by identifying potential issues and providing remediation before the product is upgraded.
• Enhanced Archiving – The Archiving feature moves the data to history tables in the same database instead of creating a separate data dump file. This improves product performance and reporting while adhering to better compliance.
• Kubernetes Support – Governance & Lifecycle now supports Kubernetes deployments.
• Platform & Component Updates – Governance and Lifecycle is now supported on SLES 15. Major updates to Governance and Lifecycle core components including upgrades to the AFX underlying technology. As part of the upgrade to AFX, some connectors have also been improved, such as SCIM Connector.
• Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) Report – Administrators can generate AWR reports directly from the UI in Governance & Lifecycle Cloud.
• Default Keystore Password Modification – Governance & Lifecycle now allows the default application keystore to be modified in the UI and then propagated to the system (aveksa.keystore, server.keystore and client.keystore). 

Join the RSA Governance & Lifecycle Community

Use the RSA Governance & Lifecycle Community to interact with RSA Customers, other RSA Governance & Lifecycle users, implementation partners and RSA consultants. You can post comments, ask questions, or answer questions that others have posted.  Whether you are a brand-new customer, or have been using the product for years, we believe that you'll find this community to be extremely valuable. 

• To join or log in, please visit: How to Login or Register for an RSA Community Account
• For additional information, please visit: Frequently Asked Questions about RSA Community

Obtaining Software and Documentation

For additional documentation, downloads, and more, visit the RSA Governance & Lifecycle page on RSA Community.

RSA EOPS Policy

RSA has a defined End of Primary Support (EOPS) policy associated with all product and versions. Please refer to the Product Version Life Cycle page for additional details.