Security Tasks

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Security Tasks

    Security Tasks help you monitor, prioritize, and manage all security-related tasks in one centralized location. This tool enables you to efficiently track and organize tasks necessary for maintaining and improving your instance's security posture.

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    Key Features

    • Accessing Security Tasks: Navigate to All > Security Center > Security Tasks to view all tasks. Use filters to sort tasks by upcoming, overdue, or open statuses.
    • User Roles: Different roles are available, including:
      • System Administrator: Full access to create, assign, and delete tasks.
      • Security Center Viewer: View-only access.
      • Security Task Manager: Manage assigned tasks and create new tasks.
      • ITIL: Interact with assigned tasks without full visibility of all tasks.
    • Task Management: Select multiple tasks to delete or assign them to yourself using checkboxes. Create new Security Tasks with the +Create Task button located on various platform security pages.
    • Automatic Task Generation: Security Tasks can be generated automatically based on specific events that occur on the platform.
    • Task Editing: Edit tasks to assign them to users, set due dates, and add necessary details.
    • Exporting Tasks: Export Security Tasks in various formats for use in other applications.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing Security Tasks, you can streamline your security management processes, ensuring that tasks are prioritized and assigned efficiently. This leads to improved security posture and better compliance with security best practices. Customers can expect enhanced visibility into task progress and easier organization of security efforts across their teams.

    Use Security Tasks to monitor, prioritize, and assign all your security-related tasks in one place.

    Save time tracking and organizing all the tasks needed to improve and maintain your instance security posture using Security Tasks.

    Review and manage Security Tasks

    Security Task page in Security Center

    Access the Security Tasks by navigating to All > Security Center > Security Tasks. By default, all tasks are displayed in the list. You can easily filter upcoming, overdue, or open tasks by selecting the cards above the list. These cards also display the current count of tasks in each of these categories. You can further refine your filter by using the normal table field filtering options and then selecting the filter button (filter button), then selecting the Advanced view button to create and save a custom filters to use later.

    User roles

    The Security Tasks use the following roles:

    User Required role Description
    System Administrator admin System Administrators can view, create, assign, and delete Security Tasks.
    Security Center Viewer sn_vsc_security_center_viewer Viewers can view, but not create, delete or edit Security Tasks.
    Security Task Manager sn_vsc_task_manager Security Task Managers can work on assigned tasks, view task manager-related pages, and create and manage tasks within Security center. They can view tasks assigned to other users but can't edit tasks assigned to other users. Task managers can't access non-task manager pages in Security Center.
    ITIL itil ITIL users can interact with Security Tasks assigned to them, but can't view all tasks as the admin and Security Task manager roles can.

    Quickly assign to yourself Security Tasks

    Use the check boxes to the left of the items in the list to select multiple items. When one of more tasks is selected, you can use the Delete button to delete the selected tasks, or the Edit button to assign the selected tasks to yourself.

    Create Security Tasks

    Create a Security Task with the +Create Task button, which is available various platform security pages.

    For example, in Security Center, on the Best Practices tool details page, the admin can select the +Create Task button to create and assign a task to complete this best practice.

    Incomplete best practice record with create task button Security task record

    Automatically generated tasks

    Security Tasks can be automatically generated. Automatic Security Task generation is triggered by an associated event that occurred on the platform. Learn more about generated Security Tasks in Automatic Security Task generation.

    Edit and assign Security Tasks

    Edit Security Tasks to assign them to users, define due dates, and provide additional details to the users who will complete these tasks. For details, see Edit Security Tasks.

    Export tasks

    You can export Security Tasks into the format of your choice. For details, see Export Security Tasks.