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# Combined Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil

# Combined Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Brazil  
Updated October 8, 2026  
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## Summary of Combined Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) Release Notes: Australia to Brazil

The Combined Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) release notes consolidate updates from the Australia through Brazil releases, providing ServiceNow customers with comprehensive guidance on new features, changes, and upgrade considerations.
USEM offers a unified architecture for vulnerability and security exposure management, improving performance, scalability, and workflow efficiency across host, application, container, and AI security exposures.
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The Brazil release builds on the Australia foundation, emphasizing AI-native experiences, enhanced integrations, and streamlined exposure management workflows. Customers upgrading to Brazil should review pre- and post-upgrade tasks, including compatibility checks and migration assistance tools, to ensure a smooth transition.

## Key Features

* **AI Security Exposure Management Enhancements:** Expanded support for AI posture findings, including cloud asset metadata, remediation guidance from Wiz, and integration with AI-native workflows using ServiceNow Otto. Integrations with Cisco AI Defense, Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, and Wiz enable comprehensive AI asset vulnerability and validation data ingestion.
* **Patch Deployment Integration Improvements:** Schedule patch deployments through Change Request approval workflows for Microsoft SCCM and HCL BigFix, aligning patching with organizational change management. Deploy multiple patches to multiple collections or computer groups in a single operation for efficiency.
* **Risk Rating Management:** Administrators and remediation owners can modify risk ratings directly on individual or bulk findings without approval workflows or routed through change approvals, with optional compensating control association.
* **Security Exposure 360 AI Analysis:** Agentic workflows enable natural language queries and AI-powered exposure analysis grounded in customers' own ServiceNow data, enhancing prioritization and decision-making.
* **Enhanced Integration Ecosystem:** Updates and new integrations include AWS Inspector and Security Hub, Microsoft Defender unified plugin with container image vulnerability ingestion, Wiz asset and test results integrations with AI-specific routing, Invicti Platform for application vulnerabilities, and expanded Qualys, Tenable.io, and GitHub integrations.
* **Security Exposure Management Workspace Enhancements:** Centralized administration for user/group role assignments, watchdog configuration, security tag management, severity mapping, and background job settings, improving governance and operational control.
* **Exception and Risk Management Improvements:** Bulk edit and bulk approval/rejection capabilities for exception requests streamline workflows. Smart Assessment support enhances risk reduction request accuracy.
* **Migration and Upgrade Support:** Migration assistant tools and guidance facilitate transition to USEM's unified architecture, reducing risk and manual effort.
* **Additional Operational Enhancements:** Automated re-evaluation of remediation tasks on preferred solution changes, auto-close rules running in parallel for large datasets, and removal of risk rating options from exception or deferral requests to centralize risk management workflows.

## Important Upgrade Information and Activation

Upgrading to USEM Brazil requires reviewing the migration assistant and validating integrations and workflows for compatibility. The USEM application is available from the ServiceNow Store, and entitlement checks ensure appropriate access to features. The Australia release introduced ServiceNow Otto as the new AI experience brand, replacing Now Assist. Customers must upgrade to at least Australia release to access AI-native features.

The Security Support Common plugin is now automatically activated with USEM and other Security Operations applications, ensuring underlying dependencies are met. ITSM Advanced plugin is required to leverage Change Request options in remediation views.

## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

* **Unified and Scalable Exposure Management:** USEM's architecture supports efficient handling of vulnerabilities across various asset types, including AI assets, with enhanced prioritization and remediation capabilities.
* **Streamlined Patch and Change Management:** Integration with Microsoft SCCM and HCL BigFix allows patch deployments to be governed by change management processes, improving compliance and auditability.
* **Improved AI-Driven Insights and Automation:** AI-powered workflows and enriched data from multiple integrations enable proactive exposure analysis and risk prioritization tailored to organizational context.
* **Centralized Configuration and Access Control:** The Security Exposure Management Workspace consolidates administration tasks, reducing complexity and enabling role-based access control for security content and workflows.
* **Efficient Exception Handling and Risk Modifications:** Bulk operations and Smart Assessment integration simplify risk acceptance and exception approvals, saving time for security and compliance teams.

## Summary of Changes and Removals

Risk rating changes are no longer available directly from exception or deferral requests; instead, risk modifications must be performed via dedicated workflows. Some options in remediation views now require the ITSM Advanced plugin. No features were removed or deprecated in these releases.

## Additional Notes

* Migration to USEM is a major upgrade; customers are encouraged to use provided migration tools and review integration compatibility.
* ServiceNow Otto AI models are updated regularly, with older models maintained only for existing configurations.
* Security Exposure 360 and AI Security Exposure Management provide innovative capabilities for AI asset vulnerability management, a critical emerging area for security teams.  
Consolidated page of all release notes for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) from Australia to Brazil.

## How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Australia to Brazil.  
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If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

## Important information for upgrading Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) to Brazil

Before you upgrade to Brazil, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.  
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| Australia | Upgrade information :   Starting with Australia Patch 5, Now Assist for Vulnerability Response is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. ServiceNow Otto® is the new AI experience brand. This change is reflected in the name of ServiceNow products, including the Now Assist for Vulnerability Response product name, which will be replaced with ServiceNow Otto for Unified Security Exposure Management. Your product entitlements remain unchanged. Check your entitlements to determine your access to specific features. To access the new AI native experience in the Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) workspace, you must upgrade to the Australia release. [ServiceNow product tiers](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-native-sku-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available: * Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights * Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases * Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets, and create your own Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. Unified Security Exposure Management is available to all customers who are entitled to Vulnerability Response. Migrating to USEM is a major upgrade that introduces a unified architecture for improved performance, scalability, and streamlined workflows. Before upgrading, leverage the Migration assistant for Unified Security Exposure Management that is available as an update set. See the [Migration Guidance to Unified Security Exposure Management \[KB2556844\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?sys_kb_id=8652717893a8ba94f538fb2d6cba1078&id=kb_article_view) Knowledge Base article for more information. This tool provides a guided experience for plugin installation, data mapping, rule migration, and post-migration validation, reducing risk and manual effort. Ensure that all integrations and workflows are reviewed for compatibility before initiating migration. For more information, see [Migrating to USEM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=migrating-to-usem&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) and [Migrate to USEM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=migrate-to-usem&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## New features

Between your current release family and Brazil, new features were introduced for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM).  
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| Australia | [Schedule patch deployments through Change Request approval](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-ws-patch-schedule-change-request&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Route patch deployments scheduled from remediation tasks through Change Request approval for Microsoft SCCM and HCL BigFix integrations. This lets you align patch deployment for critical vulnerabilities with your organization's change management approval process, and optionally deploy the patch automatically once the change is approved. [Modify risk rating in bulk](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-modify-risk&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Vulnerability Admins can now modify risk rating directly on individual or bulk findings across host, application, or container vulnerable item, or on a remediation task without an approval workflow. Remediation Owners can also modify risk ratings, with changes routed through a change approval process. Associating a compensating control with the change is optional for all roles. [SSVC decision values roll up from CVEs to third-party entries](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=nvd-ssvc-enrichment&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   USEM rolls up the Exploitation, Automatable, and Technical Impact SSVC (Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) values from CVE entries to the corresponding third-party entry (TPE) records. Changes to these values automatically trigger a risk score recalculation when the TPE risk calculator uses one or more of them. [Automatic re-evaluation of remediation tasks on Preferred solution change](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-grouping-multiple-findings-remediation-tasks-processing&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Remediation tasks can now automatically re-evaluate findings when their Preferred solution changes, so items are regrouped into the appropriate remediation task without manual intervention. This helps keep remediation tasks accurate and reduces manual cleanup. [Automatically create vulnerable items and application vulnerable items during assessment](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-va-ws-cve-exposure-assessment-api&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Vulnerability assessments now support an Auto-create VITs/AVITs option that automatically creates vulnerable items and application vulnerable items for their affected configuration items and products, removing the need for a separate manual create step. The new CVE Exposure Assessment REST API lets external systems set this option when creating a vulnerability assessment record, or trigger a CVE exposure assessment independently. [Deploy multiple patches to multiple collections with Microsoft SCCM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=mspatch-integration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Deploy more than one patch to more than one collection in a single deployment, instead of one patch to one collection at a time. When you select more than one patch for a deployment, the integration automatically creates a Software Update Group in Microsoft SCCM to bundle the patches. [Deploy multiple patches to multiple computer groups with HCL BigFix](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-bigfix-integration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Deploy more than one patch to more than one computer group in a single deployment, instead of one patch to one computer group at a time. [NVD integration enriches CVEs with SSVC decision data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=nvd-ssvc-enrichment&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   USEM enriches CVE entries with Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision values from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), including Exploitation, Automatable, and Technical Impact. Use these additional risk signals to analyze vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation. [Enhancements to ServiceNow Otto for Unified Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-review-vulnerability-exposure-data&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   USEM was enhanced and updated in the Australia release to support the new AI native experience. * Links to Records: Select the counts and findings in the Security Exposure 360 output to link you directly to the underlying vulnerable item (VITs) and records in your instance. * Suggested follow-up questions: Follow-up questions are provided that help you drill down. [Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=fix-intel-for-usem-landing&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Fix Intelligence for Security Exposure Management is a new application that enriches your host findings with normalized fix information from Armis Centrix™ for Vulnerability Prioritization and Remediation (ViPR). Detections are de-duplicated into Fix records that are linked to the findings and assets each fix resolves, with a rolled-up risk score per fix. Your team can remediate by fix instead of one finding at a time. Prioritize fixes from the Fix Intelligence tab, the Findings View, and the Remediation View, and group the findings that share a fix into a single remediation task. In this release, fixes are identified for host vulnerabilities from Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable.io, Wiz, and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. [Enhancements to the Vulnerability Response Integration with Wiz Test Results Integration](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=wiz-test-result-tab-filters&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Enhancements to the Wiz integration that imports cloud configuration findings as Test Results in Configuration Compliance. Configuration issues related to AI assets, such as AI models and agents are routed into AI security exposure management tables (AI posture findings). This enhancement helps with better visibility within AI Control Tower and for any AI-specific remediation workflows to be added in the future. The 'Send AI security findings to AI security exposure management' configuration setting has been added to the Wiz Test Results integration configuration page. This setting routes AI security findings into AI security exposure management. [View impacted findings in exception rule approvals](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-exception-rules-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Use the Impacted findings metric in the approval form's Overview tab to assess the scope and impact of an exception rule before approval. The metric displays the number of existing findings that match the rule's conditions. The impacted findings count is also included in exception rule approval emails, allowing you to make informed approval decisions without leaving your inbox. [Streamline Microsoft SCCM data ingestion with JDBC](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=mspatch-integration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Connect to Microsoft SCCM using JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) to query the SCCM database directly for collection, device, patch update, and deployment status data. Opening a firewall port for WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) RPCs (remote procedure calls) is no longer required for these queries. A WMI connection remains required to deploy patches, because patch deployment continues to use the Microsoft SCCM API over WMI. [Enhancements to the Invicti Vulnerability Integration](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=invicti-vuln-integration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Added the Invicti Platform Integration. Support for the Invicti Platform APIs introduces three new integration jobs that connect directly to the Invicti Platform cloud service: * Application Integration --- Imports the list of applications being scanned in Invicti Platform into your ServiceNow AI Platform® instance as discovered applications. * Scan Integration --- Pulls scan records from Invicti Platform, providing scan metadata to correlate with vulnerability findings. * Vulnerability Integration --- Imports application vulnerability findings from Invicti Platform and creates or updates application vulnerable items in Vulnerability Response in your ServiceNow AI Platform®. Enhancements to Application life-cycle management: When an application is deleted or decommissioned in Invicti Platform, your ServiceNow AI Platform® automatically deactivates the corresponding discovered application and closes all associated application vulnerable items (AVITs), keeping your vulnerability inventory accurate without manual cleanup. [Enhancements to AI Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=exploring-ai-security-exposure&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Remediation tasks are supported for the following AI Security Exposure Management findings: * AI Vulnerability Finding (AIVUL) * AI Validation Finding (AIVF) * AI Posture Finding (AIPF) You can view these findings along with other Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) findings and remediation tasks in the List module in the Security Exposure Management workspace organized by finding type. [Enhancements to Exception Management for Unified Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-exp-mngmt-vr&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : * Added bulk edit support for Risk modification requests that permit you to evaluate and process multiple vulnerable items at once. * Added Smart Assessment support to the Risk Reduction option in Request Exception workflows. [Evaluate vulnerability exposure with AI-powered analysis](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-review-vulnerability-exposure-data&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Security Exposure 360 agentic workflow brings AI-powered exposure analysis to Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM). Users can now ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in their own ServiceNow data --- across all types of findings within USEM. [AI Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=exploring-ai-security-exposure&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Vulnerability management teams can use AI Security Exposure Management to reduce the AI attack surface by efficiently remediating security exposures in AI assets.The AI Exposures dashboard provides you with a view into the critical security vulnerabilities of your AI attack surface. You have the option to use a generative AI skill to help you determine if any of the threats might be already mitigated and help you prioritize high risk exposures and defer lower risk exposures that have mitigations or guardrails already in place. AI Security Exposure Management uses imported data with the following integrations that are available in the ServiceNow® Store: * The Cisco AI Defense Integration for AI Security Exposure Management * The AI Service Graph Connector for Palo Alto Prisma AIRS * The AI Service Graph Connector for HiddenLayer * The Palo Alto Prisma AIRS Integration [Enhancements to the Microsoft Defender Integration for Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ms-defender-sem&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Added support for certificate-based authentication in the Microsoft Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) integration. [Enhancements to Security Posture Control and supported applications](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=spc-install&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : * Configuration Compliance is now a supported dependency for Security Posture Control Core, expanding the policy framework for compliance-driven asset evaluation. It is installed automatically when you install Security Posture Control. * With enhancements to the asset profile framework, you might see improved coverage for service graph connector-sourced data. * Enhancements to the API Connector builder for Security Posture Control streamline the process for your custom-built connectors. You might see improvements for the request/response mapping steps. * Expanded support for additional authentication patterns when building custom API connectors. [Activate the Wiz Asset Integration and identify resource types for import](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=wiz-assets-resources-tab&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Enhancements to the Wiz integration include: * Starting with version 32.1 (USEM) and version 4.1 (non-USEM), the Asset integration is deactivated by default and is not a mandatory prerequisite for the other Wiz integration imports. If you choose to activate it, the Asset integration will retrieve assets for all resource types if you don't specify the ones you want on the Asset Integration Configuration tab. To avoid importing vulnerability data you don't need, identify only the resources (assets) that you want to import with this integration. * Resource Type is no longer a mandatory field for configuring the Vulnerability Response Integration with Wiz. You can now save Wiz configurations for the integrations without specifying a Resource Type, simplifying setup for use cases where specifying a Resource Type isn't appropriate. [Configuring lookup rules](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-lookup-rules&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Applies to field is added to the Rules page for Configuration (CI) lookup rule records. For third-party and ServiceNow® integrations that support both Application Vulnerability Response (AVR) and Vulnerability Response (VR) lookup rules, like the Vulnerability Response Integration with Wiz, for example, select one for a rule: * Discovered Application for Application Vulnerability Response lookup rules. * Discovered Item for Vulnerability Response lookup rules. Note: The field is left empty by default. If you leave this field empty for lookup rules that support both VR and AVR integrations, background jobs for both applications apply changes on the same set of lookup rules. This state might cause a conflict and set the reapply flag incorrectly. With this distinction set, after the respective background jobs for AVR and VR are completed, the system resets the flag only for the lookup rules for the background job that was run. [AWS Integration for Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=aws-integration-for-security-exposure-management-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The AWS Integration for Security Exposure Management supports integrations with the following AWS services: * AWS Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continuously scans EC2 instances, ECR container images, and Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities (CVEs) and unintended network exposure. The Vulnerability Response integration with AWS Inspector imports host and container vulnerability findings from AWS Inspector. * AWS Security Hub is a security service that is used to centralize and update security checks across AWS accounts. It provides a unified view of security alerts and compliance status by integrating with various AWS services. The Vulnerability Response integration with AWS Security Hub imports host, container vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations from AWS Security Hub. [Risk reduction requests for multiple findings](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-bulk-edit-request-exception&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   You can now submit risk reduction requests for multiple findings at once using Bulk Edit in the Security Exposure Management Workspace. This reduces manual effort and simplifies the risk acceptance workflow. [Smart Assessment support for exception requests](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-exp-mngmt-vr&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Request Exception option now supports Smart Assessment. When you select Request for Risk Reduction, the compensating control questionnaire takes priority and is displayed instead of the exception questionnaire, based on your exception management configuration. [Auto-close rules now run in parallel, reducing processing time for large datasets](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-auto-close-rules&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Previously, auto-close rules ran as a single sequential job. Starting with v30.3.3, the system automatically splits processing into multiple concurrent jobs based on data volume --- no configuration required. Simply enable an auto-close rule and the system handles the rest. [Deferred migration option for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM)](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=migrate-to-usem&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   If you're not ready to migrate to Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM), you can select Upgrade later button to defer the process. The Migration Assistant will be hidden from the main view but remains accessible via the Filter Navigator whenever you're ready to proceed. [Configure users and groups in Security Exposure Management Workspace](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-users-groups-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Administrators can now assign and remove product-specific roles for users and groups directly from the Security Exposure Management workspace. This workspace-based experience provides a consistent, centralized interface for controlling access across supported exposure management products. [Security tag groups and tags for organized security content](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-create-class-group-and-tags&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Administrators can now create and manage security tag groups and tags directly from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. Tags can be applied to security incidents, response tasks, vulnerable items, observables, IoCs, and security cases to attach metadata to responding records and define access controls for specific types of security content. [Watchdog configuration](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-watchdog-configure&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Administrators can now create and manage watchdogs from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. Each watchdog monitors a specified table for conditions you define, and can be configured to notify designated users or groups when those conditions are met. [Severity mapping for third-party integrations](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-configure-severity-map&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Administrators can now create and manage severity maps from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. Severity mapping normalizes source-specific severity fields from third-party integrations into the standardized severity scale used by Unified Security Exposure Management. This ensures consistent severity representation across all integrated data sources. [Background job configuration](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-background-framework&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   A new Background Job Configuration tile is now available in the Other section of the Security Exposure Management Workspace Administration console. Selecting the tile opens the Background Job Configuration page providing a consistent workspace-based entry point for managing background job settings. [Advanced settings](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-advanced-settings&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Administrators can now configure advanced system-level settings from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. The Advanced Settings page provides a single location for managing behavior across exposure management, remediation workflows, compliance handling, and service impact calculations. [Bulk approval and rejection](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-approve-ex-rule-request&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Approvers can now process multiple exception requests simultaneously from a single list view, which can help with significantly reducing manual effort for high-volume approval workflows. [New KPI tiles for exception management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-unified-approval-rules-explore&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Added new KPI tiles to the Exception Management dashboard for Expiring Exceptions, Exception Extensions, and Repeated Rejections, giving approvers and managers additional visibility into exception health and lifecycle trends. [Unified Microsoft Defender Integration for Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ms-defender-sem&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender Threat and Vulnerability Management (MS TVM) plugins are now consolidated into a single plugin: Microsoft Defender Integration for Security Exposure Management. This consolidation deprecates the standalone Microsoft Defender for Cloud plugin. The unified plugin also introduces container image vulnerability ingestion from Microsoft Defender for Cloud, creating Container Vulnerable Items on your instance. A guided migration path is available to transfer existing data from the deprecated applications to the unified plugin. [Optimized Tenable.io Compliance Results ingestion](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=tenableIntegration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Starting with v 6.1.3, the Tenable.io Compliance Results Integration is replaced by the Tenable.io Fixed Compliance Results Integration and Tenable.io Open Compliance Results Integration. Compliance results are now imported based on their status, optimizing ingestion performance and scalability for environments with large volumes of compliance data while keeping remediation and compliance tracking aligned with the current state of findings. [Qualys Integration -- API enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=c_QualysVulnIntegration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Qualys Vulnerability Integration has been upgraded to support newer Qualys API versions across Host Detection, Host List, Knowledgebase, PC Controls, PC Policies, and PCRS integrations. The integrations now ingest additional data fields, including vulnerability detection source, authentication privilege status, active status for controls and policies, and cloud metadata, giving you better visibility into your vulnerability and compliance data. Use the new `posture_api_version` integration instance parameter to choose between the default v2.0 APIs or the newer v5.0 streaming APIs for the PCRS Policy Host and PCRS Test Results integrations. [GitHub Application Vulnerability Integration -- Generic secrets support](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=github-vuln-integration&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   The GitHub Secret Scanning Integration now imports generic secrets in addition to standard secrets from your GitHub repositories. A new Manage generic secrets in ServiceNow configuration option lets you control whether generic secrets are ingested. Imported secrets are mapped to Application Vulnerable Items (AVIs) with the scan type, Secret, while generic secrets are mapped with the scan type, Generic Secret. |
| Brazil | [Schedule patch deployments through Change Request approval](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-ws-patch-schedule-change-request&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Route patch deployments scheduled from remediation tasks through Change Request approval for Microsoft SCCM and HCL BigFix integrations. This lets you align patch deployment for critical vulnerabilities with your organization's change management approval process, and optionally deploy the patch automatically once the change is approved. [Modify risk rating in bulk](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-modify-risk&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Vulnerability Admins can now modify risk rating directly on individual or bulk findings across host, application, or container vulnerable item, or on a remediation task without an approval workflow. Remediation Owners can also modify risk ratings, with changes routed through a change approval process. Associating a compensating control with the change is optional for all roles. [Enhancements to AI Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-security-exposure-home&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) : * Expanded AI posture findings for cloud assets. The system now stores and displays cloud account ID, region, and resource tags for AI assets hosted in cloud environments, including managed assets and agents. Cloud asset references are maintained for each discovered AI asset, enabling visibility into hosting relationships. * Added remediation guidance and evidence for AI posture findings. Remediation steps for cloud configuration findings are now retrieved from Wiz and shown in a dedicated section within AI posture findings. Evidence provided by Wiz is also displayed in a scrollable section for review. * Delta time supported for AI security findings integration. The integration now supports delta start time for importing findings, aligning with other Wiz integrations and improving data synchronization. * Updated UI for AI posture findings. The posture rule description field is now split into a short description and a detailed description. The remediation section title is updated to "Remediation guidance," and an evidence section is added for findings. Metadata fields for managed AI assets are now displayed, including fallback to hosting asset or configuration item if direct values are unavailable. * Added evidence mapping for the Wiz AI Security Findings integration. Updated the import set dictionary, REST message function, and "WizAISecurityFindingsProcessor" script include to capture and map finding evidence data from Wiz. [SSVC decision values roll up from CVEs to third-party entries](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=nvd-ssvc-enrichment&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   USEM rolls up the Exploitation, Automatable, and Technical Impact SSVC (Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) values from CVE entries to the corresponding third-party entry (TPE) records. Changes to these values automatically trigger a risk score recalculation when the TPE risk calculator uses one or more of them. [Automatic re-evaluation of remediation tasks on Preferred solution change](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-grouping-multiple-findings-remediation-tasks-processing&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Remediation tasks can now automatically re-evaluate findings when their Preferred solution changes, so items are regrouped into the appropriate remediation task without manual intervention. This helps keep remediation tasks accurate and reduces manual cleanup. [Deploy multiple patches to multiple collections with Microsoft SCCM](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=mspatch-integration&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Deploy more than one patch to more than one collection in a single deployment, instead of one patch to one collection at a time. When you select more than one patch for a deployment, the integration automatically creates a Software Update Group in Microsoft SCCM to bundle the patches. [Deploy multiple patches to multiple computer groups with HCL BigFix](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-bigfix-integration&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Deploy more than one patch to more than one computer group in a single deployment, instead of one patch to one computer group at a time. [Resolve AI exposure tasks in workflow with Employee Center](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-security-exposure-employee-workflow&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   AI Security Exposure Management integrates with Employee Center and third-party security tools to enable AI asset owners to remediate AI posture findings (configuration issues) directly through lightweight tasks. [Cisco AI Defense Integration for AI Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=exploring-cisco-ai-defense-integration&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   The Vulnerability Response Integration with Cisco AI Defense imports AI model vulnerabilities and AI model validation data (results from automated red teaming or pentests) into your ServiceNow AI Platform instance. You can use this data to detect security risks, drive remediation workflows, and verify compliance with AI security requirements. [AI Service Graph Connector for Palo Alto Prisma AIRS](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=palo-alto-prisma-airs-ai-sgc&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   This integration imports AI inventory data from Palo Alto Prisma AIRS and populates the CMDB in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance. In addition to inventory data, this integration imports key metrics related to AI model vulnerabilities, validation findings (automated red teaming results) that can be viewed in AI control tower. [Palo Alto Prisma AIRS Integration for AI Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=prisma-airs-integration&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Import AI security exposures such as model vulnerabilities, model validation findings (automated red teaming alerts), and posture findings (configuration/policy violations) into AI Security Exposure Management and automate workflows for remediation. [Configure the Wiz Test Results Integration to import AI findings](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=wiz-test-result-tab-filters&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Import cloud configuration findings as Test Results into Configuration Compliance. Configuration issues related to AI assets, such as AI models and agents and AI security scans are routed into AI security exposure management tables (AI posture findings) if you have AI security exposure management activated. [Attach findings to a penetration testing assessment request](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=pentest-attach-findings-pentest-request&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   Admins can now link pentest findings to existing pentest requests during manual upload, enabling consolidation of findings from multiple vendors under a single request. [Remove older SBOM records](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sbom-cleanup&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) :   SBOM cleanup lets you create a one-time rule to purge older software bill of materials records that match specified conditions that you create. Cleanup runs are permanent and can't be reversed, and you must review the conditions you set carefully before running one. |
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## Changes

Between your current release family and Brazil, some changes were made to existing Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) features.  
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| Australia | Risk rating options are no longer part of exception or deferral requests :   Changing a risk rating is no longer available from the Request Exception dialog, or from the Bulk Edit dialog by selecting Mitigating Control in Place as a deferral reason. Risk rating and compensating control fields have been removed from both. Use Modify risk or Request risk modification, according to your role, to change a risk rating instead for individual records or in bulk. [ITSM Advanced plugin required for change request options in the Remediation view](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-ws-CRs&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Use the Create Change and Add to existing change options in the Remediation view of the Security Exposure Management Workspace to manage remediation tasks through Change Management. These options now require the ITSM Advanced plugin to be active on your instance. If you have migrated to an ITSM AI Native SKU without ITSM Advanced, upgrade to ITSM Advanced SKU to restore access to these options. [Create remediation tasks directly from the Security Exposure Management Workspace list view](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-workspace-list-page&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   Remediation owners can now create remediation tasks directly from list views in the Security Exposure Management Workspace by selecting the Create Remediation Task action from the list toolbar in the Assigned to me and Assigned to my group views for host vulnerable items, application vulnerable items, container vulnerable items, and configuration test results. Previously, this action was available only for managers. [Improved vulnerability assessment workflows](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=vr-ws-vuln-assessment&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : * CI filtering for vulnerability assessments: You can now filter which configuration items are included in a vulnerability assessment using a condition builder. * Business Application population on AVITs: AVITs created from SBOM assessment results now include Business Application information, helping you understand application impact and prioritize remediation. * Priority roll‑down from vulnerability assessments: Updates to the priority of a vulnerability assessment now automatically roll down to associated VITs and AVITs, ensuring consistent prioritization based on the highest severity. [Remediation task rule execution mode](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sem-grouping-multiple-findings-remediation-tasks-processing&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   You can now choose how remediation task rules are evaluated during ingestion. The new Match First execution mode evaluates rules sequentially and applies only the first matching rule, assigning each finding to exactly one remediation task. The default Match All mode continues to evaluate all applicable rules. [Enhanced Compensatory controls](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=requesting-approving-risk-reduction&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) :   When new vulnerable items are ingested and associated with a remediation task that already has an approved compensating control, the reduced risk rating is now automatically inherited by those new vulnerable items. |
| Brazil | Risk rating options are no longer part of exception or deferral requests :   Changing a risk rating is no longer available from the Request Exception dialog, or from the Bulk Edit dialog by selecting Mitigating Control in Place as a deferral reason. Risk rating and compensating control fields have been removed from both. Use Modify risk or Request risk modification, according to your role, to change a risk rating instead for individual records or in bulk. |
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## Removed

Between your current release family and Brazil, some Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) features or functionality were removed.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## Deprecations

Between your current release family and Brazil, some Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) features or functionality were deprecated.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## Activation information

Review information on how to activate Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM).  
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| Australia | Activation information :   Install Unified Security Exposure Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Unified Security Exposure Management is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. |
| Brazil | Activation information :   Install Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US). Starting with the September 2026 release, Gemma 4 joins our growing portfolio of open-weight models available through Now LLM Service. The latest industry advancements are available alongside sovereignty-focused options. All models are hosted and governed by ServiceNow with the same infrastructure and data protections. Older models will remain available for existing published AI skills, agents, and agentic workflows, but will no longer be available for new development or configuration. For details, see the [KB3066214: ServiceNow Otto Model Upgrades](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB3066214) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. |
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## Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) we have noted them here.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | Additional requirements :   The Security Support Common plugin is activated automatically when any of the plugins for the main Security Operations applications are activated. These applications include Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM), Security Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Configuration Compliance. |
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## Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) we have noted them here.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM), such as specific requirements or compliance levels.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) we have noted them here.  
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| Australia | No updates for this release. |
| Brazil | No updates for this release. |
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## Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) we have noted them here.  
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| Australia | * Unified Security Exposure Management now integrates with Early Warning for Security Exposure Management integration to enrich Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) data with Early Warning insights. Teams can focus remediation on vulnerabilities under active or imminent exploitation. * Vulnerability management teams can use AI Security Exposure Management and supported integrations to reduce the AI attack surface by efficiently remediating security exposures in AI assets. * USEM was enhanced and updated in the Australia release to support the new AI native experience. * Administrators can manage user and group role assignments, create/update watchdogs with custom conditions, and access a centralized Advanced Settings page directly from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. This eliminates the need to navigate multiple configuration pages. * Assign tags to security incidents, response tasks, vulnerable items, observables, IoCs, and security cases to define metadata and access control all directly from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. * Third-party source severity fields are now normalized into standard ServiceNow severity values all directly in the Security Exposure Management Workspace. * Approvers can bulk approve or reject multiple requests in a single action. * The AWS Integration for Security Exposure Management supports integrations with AWS Inspector and AWS Security Hub. See [Unified Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=unified-security-exposure-management-landing-page&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. |
| Brazil | * Centralize exposure management workflows, improve visibility across exposures, and enforce governance through configurable rules. * Reduce the AI attack surface by using AI Security Exposure Management and supported integrations to remediate security exposures in AI assets. * Manage user and group role assignments, configure watchdogs with custom conditions, and access advanced settings directly from the Security Exposure Management Workspace. * Assign tags to security incidents, response tasks, vulnerable items, observables, IoCs, and security cases to define metadata and access control. * Normalize third-party source severity fields into standard ServiceNow severity values. See [Unified Security Exposure Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=unified-security-exposure-management-landing-page&family=brazil&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. |
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