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    Security best practices (instance security hardening)

    In addition to security configurations, some extra manual effort is required to further secure Now Platform applications on a day-to-day basis. This section contains security tasks that an administrator should perform periodically, within a certain interval of time.

    • High security plugin (instance security hardening)

      When you activate the High Security plugin, it creates or updates hundreds of different configurations to control the level of security on your instance. These configurations mitigate many of the top OWASP attacks by enabling strict access control, input validation, and output encoding.

    • Individual login IDs (instance security hardening)

      Ensure that all users have individual user IDs, which enables auditing of all user activities.

    • Mobile UI obfuscation (instance security hardening)

      Use the glide.ui.m.blur_ui_when_backgrounded property to obfuscate all fields from the snapshot as the image is saved during the backgrounding process. to obfuscate.

    • Patches and updates (instance security hardening)

      Ensure that the instance is running the most current patch level. Security fixes are routinely released for the Now Platform within many of the patches and hot fixes that accompany product feature updates. Upgrading when new patches and hot fixes are available reduces the risk of potential vulnerabilities.

    • Remove demo data (instance security hardening)

      Demo data, particularly demo accounts, are typically included when an instance is created. If so, all demo data should be removed prior to using the instance in non-production or production.

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      Security best practices (instance security hardening)

      In addition to security configurations, some extra manual effort is required to further secure Now Platform applications on a day-to-day basis. This section contains security tasks that an administrator should perform periodically, within a certain interval of time.

      • High security plugin (instance security hardening)

        When you activate the High Security plugin, it creates or updates hundreds of different configurations to control the level of security on your instance. These configurations mitigate many of the top OWASP attacks by enabling strict access control, input validation, and output encoding.

      • Individual login IDs (instance security hardening)

        Ensure that all users have individual user IDs, which enables auditing of all user activities.

      • Mobile UI obfuscation (instance security hardening)

        Use the glide.ui.m.blur_ui_when_backgrounded property to obfuscate all fields from the snapshot as the image is saved during the backgrounding process. to obfuscate.

      • Patches and updates (instance security hardening)

        Ensure that the instance is running the most current patch level. Security fixes are routinely released for the Now Platform within many of the patches and hot fixes that accompany product feature updates. Upgrading when new patches and hot fixes are available reduces the risk of potential vulnerabilities.

      • Remove demo data (instance security hardening)

        Demo data, particularly demo accounts, are typically included when an instance is created. If so, all demo data should be removed prior to using the instance in non-production or production.

      Related reference
      • Access control (instance security hardening)
      • Attachments (instance security hardening)
      • Email security (instance security hardening)
      • Input validation (instance security hardening)
      • Secure communications (instance security hardening)
      • Security whitelisting (instance security hardening)
      • Session management (instance security hardening)
      • Other settings and security resourcess

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