Security Center release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated April 9, 2026
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    Summary of Security Center release notes

    ServiceNow Security Center is a comprehensive application composed of specialized tools that help organizations enhance the security of their ServiceNow environments. It enables improved security posture management and compliance tracking through an integrated, user-friendly interface. The application is continuously updated with new features, hardening baselines, and integrations to address emerging security needs.

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    Key Features

    • Security Hardening Baselines: Regularly updated baselines (up to version 8) that guide administrators in configuring secure settings across instances.
    • Access Management Console: Provides visibility into access misconfigurations to strengthen identity and access management controls.
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM) Tools Integration: Includes Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, along with new IAM-related security metrics, accessible from the Security Center home.
    • Security Tasks: Allows creation, prioritization, delegation, and monitoring of security-related tasks within a unified dashboard for streamlined security operations.
    • Security Posture Dashboards: Multi-instance and single-instance dashboards provide consolidated views of security posture across production and sub-production environments.
    • Security Event Notifications and Banner Announcements: Alert administrators to urgent security issues and potential risky events in real time.
    • Platform Security Best Practices Manager: Organizes and tracks instance security configuration tasks to ensure effective completion.
    • Enhanced User Experience: Improved navigation, support for Next Experience UI themes, consistent tool overview pages, and embedded learning videos facilitate easier tool adoption and use.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved security posture through actionable hardening recommendations and access management insights.
    • Streamlined security task management enabling better prioritization and progress tracking of security activities.
    • Enhanced visibility into security risks and compliance status via dashboards and notifications.
    • Better integration with identity and access management processes, supporting comprehensive security governance.
    • Easier adoption and efficient use of security tools through improved UI and embedded instructional content.

    Additional Information

    The Security Center requires a minimum ServiceNow version of Washington DC and ongoing updates address bug fixes, feature enhancements, and integration improvements. Customers should consult the ServiceNow Store listing for detailed system requirements and compatibility information.

    Version history for the Security Center on the ServiceNow Store.

    Important:
    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 3.3.1 - April 2026
    Defect fixes.
    Version 3.3.0 - March 2026
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 8.
      • Accept risk for hardening settings.
    • Fixed: Defect fixes.
    Version 3.2.3 - February 2026
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 7.
      • New Access management console, giving users ability to look at access misconfigurations.
    • Changed:
      • Updated integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center.  Use the updated sections in the Security Center home to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, as well as new Security Metrics for IAM.
    • Fixed: Defect fixes.
    Version 3.2.2 - December 2025
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 7.
      • New Access management console, giving users ability to look at access misconfigurations.
    • Changed: Updated integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center.  Use the updated sections in the Security Center home to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, as well as new Security Metrics for IAM.
    • Fixed: bug fixes.
    Version 3.1.2 - August 2025
    • Improved: New Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center. Use the new IAM section in Security Center to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance.
    • Updated: Bug fixes
    Version 3.0.5 - June 2025
    • New:
      • Security Tasks allows administrators to create, prioritize, delegate and monitor progress for platform security tasks, in a unified dashboard, that are either automatically generated by the platform or manually created.
      • Embedded videos to provide an easier way to learn how to best leverage key tools and navigate the user experiences.
    • Improved:
      • Improved tools overview pages for a consistent experience and easy access to common filtering options.
      • Support Next Experience UI themes which allows to configure the variables for colors, shapes, fonts, and other aspects of the user experience.
    • Updated:
      • Updates to the Security Hardening tool to the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings V6.
      • Bug fixes.
    Version 2.1.2 - June 2025
    Bug fixes.
    Version 1.6.3 - June 2025
    Only minor bugs were addressed in this release.
    Version 3.0.2 - May 2025
    • New:
      • Security Tasks allows administrators to create, prioritize, delegate and monitor progress for platform security tasks, in a unified dashboard, that are either automatically generated by the platform or manually created.
      • Embedded videos to provide an easier way to learn how to best leverage key tools and navigate the user experiences.
    • Improved:
      • Improved tools overview pages for a consistent experience and easy access to common filtering options.
      • Support Next Experience UI themes which allows to configure the variables for colors, shapes, fonts, and other aspects of the user experience.
    • Updated: Updates to the Security Hardening tool to the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings V6.
    Version 2.1.1 - April 2025
    Bug fixes.
    Version 2.1.0 - February 2025
    • Update the Scanner tool's Auditor suite with additional scan checks.
    • Adding 6 new Best Practices.
    • Bug fixes and improvements.
    Version 1.6.2 - January 2025
    Only minor bugs were addressed in this release.
    Version 2.0.4 - December 2024
    Fix upgrade issue introduced from new fixscript.
    Version 2.0.1 - November 2024
    • Changed:
      • Improved navigation and user experience:
        • New Home page integrated in the new Admin Center navigation
        • Three new pages that provides summary information for the three key security tasks with their own navigation to relevant tools:
          • Security Posture
          • Security Configuration
          • Security Monitoring
      • Added new security scan suite Security Controls Activation
        • Review security controls that were recently released
      • Updated Security Hardening tool with the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings baseline v5.0
    Version 1.6.1 - November 2024
    • New features:
      • Security Banner Announcements - Helps admin to view urgent security issues sent from Servicenow.
      • Multi-instance Security posture dashboard & Single-instance Security posture dashboard: Helps admin to view their production environment and be able to view security posture information across that production instance and its subprod instances to quickly and easily understand their environment overall security posture.
      • Security Event Notifications - Helps admin to get notified when an indicative of a potential risky security events occurs.
    Version 1.6.0 - August 2024
    • New:
      • Security Banner Announcements - Helps admin to view urgent security issues sent from ServiceNow.
      • Multi-instance Security posture dashboard & Single-instance Security posture dashboard: Helps admin to view their production environment and be able to view security posture information across that production instance and its subprod instances to quickly and easily understand their environment overall security posture.
      • Security Event Notifications - Helps admin to get notified when an indicative of a potential risky security events occurs.
    Version 1.5.4 - July 2024
    • New Features:
      • Platform Security Best Practices manager V1 - Helps admin complete their configuration tasks effectively and efficiently by providing them a tool that organizes the many tasks involved in instance security configuration and allows them to keep track of the progress.
      • Implement AppSec Security Hardening Baseline V4.
      • Navigation improvements between Admin Center and Security Center.
    • System requirements: Min. supported version: Washington DC
    Version 1.5.3 - May 2024
    • New Features:
      • Platform Security Best Practices manager V1 - Helps admin complete their configuration tasks effectively and efficiently by providing them a tool that organizes the many tasks involved in instance security configuration and allows them to keep track of the progress.
      • Implement AppSec Security Hardening Baseline V4.
      • Navigation improvements between Admin Center and Security Center.
    Version 1.4.0 - February 2024
    Minor fixes.
    Version 1.3.4 - January 2024
    • Added support for the Washington family release.
    • Some minor fixes.
    Version 1.3.2 - November 2023
    • New: Added 42 new settings
    • Changed:
      • CVSS score change for following settings:
        • Enable Account Recovery
        • Enable Updated Version of Multi SSO Plugin
      • Settings compliance status change for following settings:
        • Set Minimal Password Length
        • Enable Email OTP for Multi-Factor Authentication
        • Disallow Infected Files Download
    • Fixed: Pre-existing issues within security center
    Version 1.2.0 - August 2023
    New: Metrics Tool added 'Adaptive Authentication' metrics category and metrics.
    Version 1.1.11 - July 2023
    Fixed:
    1. Removed 'Block Direct Inserts to MID ECC Queue for Code Signing Requirement' setting.
    2. Fixed Postgres DB syntax error warnings.
    Version 1.1.9 - May 2023

    ServiceNow Security Center is an application that consists of a set of purpose-built tools designed to help organizations maintain the security of their ServiceNow deployments. Using Security Center, organizations can improve their security posture, strengthen their compliance levels, and do so with a seamless user experience.