Major Security Incident Management
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Summary of Major Security Incident Management
Major Security Incident Management (MSIM) enhances the existing Security Incident Response capabilities within ServiceNow by enabling security analysts and incident managers to effectively track, escalate, and manage major security incidents. It allows for proposing or directly promoting standard security incidents to major incidents, linking child incidents, and facilitating collaboration throughout the remediation process.
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Key Features
- Dedicated Workspace: A specialized workspace tailored for major security incident managers to oversee and coordinate incident response.
- Incident Organization: Ability to organize response tasks across multiple related child security incidents.
- Collaboration Automation: Automatic creation and archival of collaboration folders and chat channels upon major incident creation and closure.
- Artifact Management: File explorer integrated with Microsoft SharePoint to manage and track artifacts related to the incident.
- Communication Management: Integration with Microsoft Teams to manage chat channels and activity streams across multiple security, IT, and functional groups.
Workspace Components
The MSIM workspace includes components specifically designed for the major security incident manager role, enabling streamlined task organization, collaboration folder and chat channel automation, artifact tracking through SharePoint, and communication oversight via Microsoft Teams integration.
Supported Versions and Requirements
- MSIM requires ServiceNow AI Platform® Rome version or later.
- Supports Microsoft Teams within the Office 365 suite for chat and collaboration.
- Requires installation and activation of core Security Operations plugins, including Security Incident Response and associated dependencies, from the ServiceNow Store.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By leveraging MSIM, ServiceNow customers can expect a more structured and collaborative approach to managing major security incidents, reducing resolution times and improving coordination among teams. The integration with Microsoft tools ensures seamless communication and artifact management, while the dedicated workspace enhances visibility and control over incident lifecycle activities.
Track and manage various activities that are typically part of resolving a major security incident through Major Security Incident Management. Through an intuitive workspace, incident managers and those working on an incident can propose and promote incidents to major incidents, track major security incident activities, and easily collaborate with colleagues.
Overview
The major security incident management capabilities work in conjunction with the existing security incident response product capabilities. This includes an ability for a security analyst to escalate a standard security incident to a major security incident, so that the new product capabilities are available to support the remediation process.
After you install on your ServiceNow instance, a security incident analyst can:
- Propose a security incident to major security incident candidate to initiate a review process on the need to create a major security incident.
- Directly promote a security incident to a major security incident without the need for an additional review process.
- Reject a security incident that is proposed as a major security incident (MSI).
- Link a security incident as a child incident to the major security incident (MSI) so that all security incidents can be worked.
Key features
Major Security Incident Management (MSIM) improves the major security incident remediation process with the following features:
- Dedicated workspace for managing major security incidents designed for the major security incident manager user role.
- Organize response tasks across multiple 'child' security incidents.
- Automate creation of collaboration folders and chat communication channels after a major security incident is created, as well as archival as part of incident closure.
- File explorer component to organize and track the collection of artifacts (files) related to the major security incident via a Microsoft SharePoint integration.
- Chat channel manager and activity stream components to manage communications across multiple security, IT, and functional groups via a Microsoft Teams integration.
Workspace Components
The Major Security Incident Management product contains several new workspace components and user interface pages that deliver the key features functionality:
- Dedicated workspace for managing major security incidents specifically designed for the major Security Incident Manager user role.
- Organize response tasks across multiple child security incidents.
- Automate creation of collaboration folders and chat communication channels after a major security incident is created, as well as archival as part of incident closure.
- File explorer component to organize and track the collection of artifacts (files) related to the major security incident via a Microsoft SharePoint integration.
- Chat channel manager and activity stream components to manage communications across multiple security, IT, and functional groups via a Microsoft Teams integration.
Supported Major Security Incident Management versions
Major Security Incident Management (MSIM) requires ServiceNow AI Platform® Rome version.
This feature supports Microsoft Teams, which is a chat-centered workspace in the Microsoft Office 365 suite. Earlier Microsoft Teams was a separate installation from Microsoft Office 365 applications.
Supported ServiceNow AI Platform versions
This feature is supported on Rome and later releases.
- Security Incident Response: com.snc.si_dep is the dependent plugin. Installing this plugin activates the other Security Operations applications.
- Security Integration Framework
- Security Support Common
- Security Support Common Orchestration