Security Incident Response - Task view for non security groups

Ravish Shetty
Tera Guru

hi all,

We have some security incident tasks assigned to some other teams who might need read-only access to the incident ticket and also the assigned task.

I tried assigning sn_si.external and sn_si.special_access but ithe users are still unable to see the task.

Ravish

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andy_ojha
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Hey Ravish,

To confirm -> it sounds like you want to have a user that is not a Security Analyst (or a traditional SIR user), to have limited access to certain SIR records?   Are you potentially re-assigning these SIR records to these "external" folks", or creating Security Response Tasks (SITs)?

I don't believe using <sn_si.external> will solve that for you, however <sn_si.special_access> might partially get you there.

sn_si.external

Using <sn_si.external>, you would need to assign this <role> to SN Groups that you anticipate creating / assigning Security Incident Response Tasks to.  So if you have an SIR, you can create multiple SITs (Response Tasks) to External Teams (e.g. Task to block an IP addr, or disable an account, etc).   

You would not be assigning an SIR record to these Groups; you would be creating Response Tasks from the SIR, and assigning those to these Teams. 

The baseline SIR functionality, is that you must assign the SIT to an actual Assignment group AND Assigned to {user}.  Also, these users would not be able to navigate to the SIR record, that the SIT (Response Task) was created for.

There is an ACL entry on Response Tasks for users with <sn_si.external> -> which only allows them to see Response Tasks that are assigned to them at the {user} layer. 

They will nav to "My work"...  to see their relevant SITs (Response Tasks).

sn_si.special_access

Using <sn_si.special_access>, there is no need to explicitly assign this <role> to a Group or User. 

When you navigate to an SIR record, and look at the "special permissions" fields such as `Read access` and `Privileged access` -> by putting a user into these fields, the system will automatically grant them this role.  Then, when that user logs into SN, they have a limited view into the SIR app (even without having any sn_si.* <roles>). 

These users will only be able either 'read' or 'edit' explicit SIR records, where they have been granted access to -> i.e. `Read access` and `Privileged access`.

They will nav to "Security Incident" -> "Incidents" -> "Visible to me"... to see their relevant SIRs.

 

 

Reference - sn_si.special_access

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Reference - sn_si.external

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Hey Ravish,

Granting the <sn_si.external> role should be sufficient for your use-cases.  

  • This way, Teams outside of Security (e.g. who do not have <sn_si.analyst> or the other SIR roles) -> can be assigned Security Response Tasks and see their work.
  • This allows the Security Analyst (or your workflow), to create these Response Tasks for these external Teams
  • In the case of the Lost Mobile Device, the "Mobility Team" would receive a Response Task that they action, without needing access to the Parent SIR record.

If your Security Team has special scenarios, where they want to allow "non-Security" or "non-SIR" users to see or update an SIR record:

  • They can optionally add a specific SN User, to one of the `Read access` and `Privileged access` fields directly on the SIR record
  • This will automatically apply the <sn_si.special_access> role to the SN User 
  • You should not need to explicitly grant the <sn_si.special_access> role to users

Hope that helps.

that's great. thanks for the response.

 

Ravish

What I've seen though is that the assignee cannot update the state of the task. When impersonating the assignee, I can update work notes but the State field goes blank along with the drop-down list. This is even with the sn_si.external role. Is there something else that needs to be set?

 

Just bumping this thread up to see if anyone was able to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

andy_ojha
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Hey there,

If you are seeing the issue of, users going to Response Tasks and not able to choose any state value - there is a known issue for this, that I believe is resolved now.

What version of ServiceNow, and what version of Security Incident Response are you using?