The ServiceNow® Security Center is composed of four distinct tools designed to help you improve your security posture, strengthen your compliance levels, and do so with a seamless experience. Security Center is a new application in the Vancouver release.

Security Center highlights for the Vancouver release

  • Gain visibility into the security posture of your instance and conform with recommended security standards.
  • Includes hardening setting recommendations, security event trends, and recommended security checks to scan your instance against.
  • Schedule security scans to identify misconfigurations and be notified when security events exceed custom thresholds.
  • Create custom security checks and security scans to comply with regulations and security audits.
  • Access all security and compliance-related documents and portals.

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Important: Security Center is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

Security Center features

Security hardening
Use the Hardening tool to ensure that your instance hardening configurations conform with ServiceNow recommendations.
Security scanner
Use the Scanner tool to scan your instance against a set of security checks to identify misconfigurations and insecure behaviors.
Security metrics
Use the Metrics tool to monitor over 50 different security events to identify potential security threats and insecure user behaviors.
Security learning
Use the central repository of security resources that provides complete access to ServiceNow security and compliance documents and portals.

Activation information

Security Center is a Now Platform application that is active by default.

Related ServiceNow applications and features

Instance Scan
Security Center uses ServiceNow® Instance Scan to scan the instance for security vulnerabilities.
Analytics Hub
Security Center uses ServiceNow® Analytics Hub functionality to visualize and analyze events over time.