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# Security Case Management

# Security Case Management {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Yokohama  
Updated January 30, 2025  
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## Summary of Security Case Management

Security Case Management enables security analysts engaged in threat hunting to collect, analyze, and manage information related to suspicious activities within their environment.
It supports the aggregation of case-related records such as security incidents, observables, configuration items (CIs), and affected users into centralized security cases.
This allows analysts to efficiently pivot through related data to assess threats like targeted campaigns or advanced persistent threats.
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Security cases can be created from multiple sources within your ServiceNow instance, including Security Case Management itself, Security Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, as well as configuration items and users from the CMDB and user tables. Once created, these sources can also contribute additional analysis data to existing cases.

## Key Features

* **Case Structure:** Each security case consists of three main sections:
  * **Case Header:** Displays basic identifying information and classification, using a case number prefixed with "SECC".
  * **Additional Case Details:** Contains analysis-specific information such as the case state, work notes, and recorded activities.
  * **Case Artifacts:** Holds collections of related records (artifacts) aiding threat identification and response, organized in tabs that support searching and filtering.
* **Record Management:** Analysts can exclude records deemed safe or irrelevant from view without deleting them, with the option to restore them later.
* **Detailed Exploration:** The Additional Details feature allows viewing related information for specific records within each tab, such as incidents or vulnerabilities linked to a configuration item.
* **Annotations:** Analysts can add personal notes (annotations) to case artifacts to document findings or observations.
* **Analyst Tools:** Tools such as sightings searches on observables and searches for security artifacts support deeper investigation within cases.

## Key Outcomes

By using Security Case Management, ServiceNow customers can streamline threat investigation workflows, centralize diverse information sources into a cohesive analysis workspace, and improve collaboration through annotations and case management features. This helps security teams quickly identify, classify, and respond to complex security threats more effectively while maintaining full traceability of investigative steps and evidence.  
Security Case Management provides a means for
security analysts who are engaged in threat hunting to gather information on suspicious activity
in their environment. Case-related records, such as security incidents, observables, CIs, and
affected users can be added to cases to accommodate broad and specific analysis.

With the ability to easily pivot through the records and related information, analysts can
assess whether they are facing a targeted campaign, advanced persistent threat, and so forth.

Security cases can be created from various sources on your instance, including Security Case Management, Security Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence. You can also create cases
from configuration items and affected users in the Configuration Items \[cmdb.ci\] and Users
\[sys.user\] tables, respectively. After cases have been created, each of these sources can be
also used to add valuable analysis resources to existing cases.

Each security case consists of three main sections, a header section, a section with additional
case details, and a case artifacts section containing a collection of records that aid in
building an argument for identifying and dealing with particular threats.

## Case header

Figure 1. Case header section

The case header provides basic information used to identify and classify the security case.
The case number uses the SECC prefix.

## Additional case details

Figure 2. Additional Case Details section

The Additional Case Details section provides information specific to
the analysis that has already been performed on the case, including its current state, and work
notes and activities recorded for the case.

## Case artifacts

Figure 3. Case Artifacts section

The Case Artifacts section provides a series of tabs of information
contained in the security case.

You can perform searches within the contents of each tab. You can also exclude specific
records you have already evaluated as being safe or which are of no value in your investigation.
The excluded records are not deleted, but are hidden from view. If needed, you can view excluded
records and add them back.  
Within each tab, you can click the Additional Details icon to show related information for the selected record. For example, if you click the Configuration Items tab to view the Configuration Items Explorer, and click Additional Details for a specific CI, you can view incidents, vulnerable items, and annotations associated with that CI. Figure 4. Case Artifacts---related detail  
You can also select a record and click the Annotate button for a case-related artifact to add annotations to the record. Annotations are simply notes that each analyst can make on a particular artifact. Figure 5. Security Annotations  
Other tools the analyst can use for examining cases include:

* [Run a sightings search on observables in a case](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/oTfH8elsqgG_9nGbxX~_VQ "You can search for observables using the Sighting Search feature to determine how often they occur. Each occurrence is considered a sighting. You can limit the search to the number of sightings within a selected number of days or within a date range.")
* [Search for security artifacts](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/k4ESfHWf5EBzRaDCdhCZlQ "You can perform a keyword search on any security artifact list.")
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