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# Security Case Management

# Security Case Management {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated March 12, 2026
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## Summary of Security Case Management

Security Case Management is designed for security analysts engaged in threat hunting, enabling them to compile information on suspicious activities within their environments.
Analysts can create security cases from multiple sources, including Security Incident Response and Threat Intelligence, as well as from configuration items and affected users.
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## Key Features

* **Case Structure:** Each security case contains a header section for identification, an additional details section for analysis insights, and a case artifacts section for related records.
* **Case Header:** Identifies and classifies cases with a unique number using the SECC prefix.
* **Additional Case Details:** Provides insights into the case's current status, work notes, and recorded activities.
* **Case Artifacts:** Contains tabs for information related to the case, enabling searches, record exclusions, and viewing related details.
* **Annotations:** Analysts can add notes to specific artifacts to enhance the investigation process.
* **Search Tools:** Analysts can run sightings searches on observables and search for security artifacts within a case.

## Key Outcomes

By utilizing Security Case Management, analysts can efficiently gather and analyze information related to security threats, assess potential risks, and maintain a comprehensive record of their investigative processes. This structured approach facilitates better decision-making and enhances overall security postures within the organization.  
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://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/XvGr49U2CMh76ejxomO4Mw "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://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/cnsXnFihO7S_E65zHxedvg "You can perform a keyword search on any security artifact list.")
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