Security Exposure Management workflow
Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) is ServiceNow’s next-generation platform that consolidates multiple security exposure applications—Vulnerability Response (VR), Application Vulnerability Response (AVR), Container Vulnerability Response (CVR), and Configuration Compliance (CC)—into a unified architecture. It provides a single source of truth for security exposure, enabling real-time visibility, streamlined workflows, and automated remediation.
The workflow involves the following steps:
- Install and activate USEM applications: Install the Unified Security Exposure Management plugin from the ServiceNow® Store.This automatically installs dependent apps such as:
- Security Exposure Management Workspace
- Administration for Security Exposure Management
- Risk Scoring
- Exception Management
- Remediation Task Management
- Access the USEM Workspace: Navigate to the Security Exposure Management Workspace.
- Ingest and correlate data: USEM supports ingestion from multiple scanners (Qualys, Tenable, Veracode, etc.). It deduplicates and correlates findings across infrastructure, applications, containers, and cloud environments.
- Prioritise and remediate: Use the Risk Scoring module to assign severity based on business impact. Launch remediation tasks directly from findings. Exception management is modularised and unified across all apps.
- Monitor and report: Dashboards provide real-time insights into exposure, remediation progress, and exception trends. Saved filters and watch topics help track critical findings.