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# Security Exposure Management Workspace

# Security Exposure Management Workspace {#ariaid-title1}

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

The Security Exposure Management Workspace is a centralized platform designed for security teams to efficiently investigate security exposures, implement remediation actions, and track risk reduction.
It enhances collaboration and streamlines responses to security risks by bringing visibility into findings, tasks, and approvals in one role-based environment.
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## Key Features

* **Real-time Visibility:** Dashboards and AI-driven insights provide immediate insight into your security landscape.
* **Automated Workflows:** Facilitates faster and smarter remediation actions through automation.
* **Centralized Governance:** Ensures compliance and manages exceptions effectively.
* **Role-based Views:** Tailored interfaces for security analysts, remediation owners, and governance teams to enhance collaboration and decision-making.

## Workspace Views and Capabilities

* **Finding View:** Offers dashboards for risk prioritization and remediation initiation for security analysts.
* **Watch Topics:** Allows monitoring of high-priority vulnerabilities and trends for threat analysts and CISOs.
* **Remediation View:** Helps manage and track tasks across teams for remediation owners and security analysts.
* **Cloud Exposure View:** Monitors cloud risks through various lenses for vulnerability managers and security analysts.
* **Approvals:** Centralizes all approval processes for governance and risk teams, providing full visibility into requests.
* **Lists:** Access and manage lists of findings and tasks for vulnerability analysts and security managers.
* **Administration:** Allows admins to configure settings and maintain consistent policies across the workspace.

## Next Steps

To get started, access the Security Exposure Management Workspace via Workspaces \> Security Exposure Management. Explore detailed guidance for each view to maximize your use of the platform.  
The Security Exposure Management Workspace provides a unified, role-based environment where security teams can investigate exposures, take remediation actions, configure automation, and track risk reduction progress in one place. It centralizes
visibility across findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and administration, helping teams collaborate efficiently and respond to risks with clarity and
speed.

## Security Exposure Management Workspace benefits {#sem-workspace-user-interface__section_sembenefits}

The workspace provides multiple views designed for specific workflows, such as prioritizing critical issues, approving exceptions, managing remediation plans, and configuring automation, all in one place, without switching tools or
interfaces.  
In the workspace, you can:

* Gain real-time visibility into your exposure landscape with dashboards and AI-driven insights
* Act faster and smarter with automated workflows and prioritized remediation
* Ensure compliance through centralized governance and exception management
* Improve collaboration with role-based views tailored to each team's responsibilities

Role-based views ensure that security analysts, remediation owners, vulnerability managers, governance teams, and administrators work with shared awareness and act confidently based on the latest insights.

## Workspace views and capabilities {#sem-workspace-user-interface__section_ovq_lvf_qfc}

Each view in the Security Exposure Management Workspace is designed for a specific purpose and role, providing targeted functionality to manage security exposures effectively.
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| View | Key Functions | Primary users | Key Actions |
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| [Finding view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/OoBg9NK2Fz~7riVmx_a5Sw "The Security Exposure Management Workspace Findings view aggregates the security exposure data and presents it as dashboards containing data visualization widgets.") | Gain a clear, real-time understanding of your exposure landscape through dashboards that surface risks and insight-driven priorities | Security analysts | Explore default or custom dashboards, drill into detailed findings, initiate remediation activities, and use Now Assist insights to prioritize critical issues and respond faster |
| [Watch Topics](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/VRV4Fs_GQ35xNj3~ipxmYg "The Watch topics page in the Security Exposure Management Workspace enables you to create and edit a watch topic. A Watch topic is a set of data visualizations which enables you to monitor a filtered set of records findings (VITs, AVITs, CVITs and CTRs) over time on a dashboard that might be of a particular interest or priority to your organization.") | Continuously track and monitor specific high-priority vulnerability categories that require ongoing attention or strategic focus | Threat analysts, CISOs, Vulnerability managers | Create and refine watch topics, monitor trends and severity changes, evaluate business impact, trigger remediation efforts when thresholds are met |
| [Remediation view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Qlwa1HPh_XGnJf_NIu9eVQ "The Remediation view in the Security Exposure Management workspace provides remediation owners and vulnerability managers with a consolidated view of remediation tasks, findings (vulnerable items and configuration test results), and assets (configuration items) that are associated with exposure findings.") | Plan, manage, and track remediation work across teams to ensure timely and effective resolution | Remediation owners, IT operations, security analysts | View assigned tasks, update progress, collaborate with owners, track deadlines |
| [Cloud Exposure view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/yB14rSfMjj8WsqXcCLcgng "The Cloud Exposure View is a module that is supported by Security Exposure Management workspace. Select interactive visualizations and filter aggregated data for your cloud assets by category to view findings for your security exposures. Cloud security teams can monitor and act on all their cloud-related security findings from multiple vendors across their cloud environments from within the workspace.") | Gain a unified view to monitor and respond to top cloud risks through multiple lenses, including assets, images, and regulatory standards. | Vulnerability managers, Security analysts | View risk by cloud asset, drill into asset and finding details, and initiate remediation activities. |
| [Approvals](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/t~QuqV_tIk9i7XYZ7nIyyw "The approval process in Security Exposure Management for vulnerability and compliance exceptions is unified to simplify workflows, improve visibility, and streamline actions for Approvers.") | Manage and track all vulnerability and compliance exception approvals in a single, unified workflow with full visibility into request status and urgency | Governance \& Risk teams, approvers | Review contextual details for each approval request, take approval actions, view overdue and pending items, access finding details, and record comments or decisions directly |
| [Lists](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/cU0SPlBFgUyK~YNIGlh4UQ "The List view in the Security Exposure Management Workspace enables vulnerability and security managers and analysts to view remediation progress on records, drill down into records, and view the status of their approval requests and exceptions.") | Access complete lists of findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and exceptions to monitor status, ownership, and progress. | Vulnerability analysts, remediation owners, security managers | Navigate predefined or custom lists, drill into records, create and manage custom lists, monitor status and ownership, and take follow-up actions such as updating records or processing approvals |
| [Administration](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/U~pD4nFVMc8OKCw9RQNK1w "The Administration for Security Exposure Management application offers a unified administrative experience across all Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) applications. It introduces the Admin Console within the Security Exposure Management (SEM) Workspace, allowing administrators to configure Security Exposure Management applications and monitor integrations from a single location.") | Configure and govern Security Exposure Management settings centrally to ensure consistent policies, integrations, and automation across the environment | Admins, Platform owners | Manage integrations, configure rules and automation, set up email notifications and templates, map severity levels, and customize visualization settings from a unified Admin Console |
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## Getting started {#sem-workspace-user-interface__getting_started}

Access the Security Exposure Management Workspace by navigating to WorkspacesSecurity Exposure Management. Your available views and actions depend on your assigned role.

## Next steps {#sem-workspace-user-interface__section_sby_4sy_khc}

Explore detailed guidance for each Security Exposure Management Workspace view:

[Security Exposure Management Workspace Findings view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/OoBg9NK2Fz~7riVmx_a5Sw "The Security Exposure Management Workspace Findings view aggregates the security exposure data and presents it as dashboards containing data visualization widgets.")

[Security Exposure Management Workspace Watch Topics](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/VRV4Fs_GQ35xNj3~ipxmYg "The Watch topics page in the Security Exposure Management Workspace enables you to create and edit a watch topic. A Watch topic is a set of data visualizations which enables you to monitor a filtered set of records findings (VITs, AVITs, CVITs and CTRs) over time on a dashboard that might be of a particular interest or priority to your organization.")

[Remediation view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Qlwa1HPh_XGnJf_NIu9eVQ "The Remediation view in the Security Exposure Management workspace provides remediation owners and vulnerability managers with a consolidated view of remediation tasks, findings (vulnerable items and configuration test results), and assets (configuration items) that are associated with exposure findings.")

[Viewing the Cloud Exposure View dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/yB14rSfMjj8WsqXcCLcgng "The Cloud Exposure View is a module that is supported by Security Exposure Management workspace. Select interactive visualizations and filter aggregated data for your cloud assets by category to view findings for your security exposures. Cloud security teams can monitor and act on all their cloud-related security findings from multiple vendors across their cloud environments from within the workspace.")

[Security Exposure Management Approvals View](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/t~QuqV_tIk9i7XYZ7nIyyw "The approval process in Security Exposure Management for vulnerability and compliance exceptions is unified to simplify workflows, improve visibility, and streamline actions for Approvers.")

[Security Exposure Management Workspace List view](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/cU0SPlBFgUyK~YNIGlh4UQ "The List view in the Security Exposure Management Workspace enables vulnerability and security managers and analysts to view remediation progress on records, drill down into records, and view the status of their approval requests and exceptions.")

[Administration in Unified Security Exposure Management](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/U~pD4nFVMc8OKCw9RQNK1w "The Administration for Security Exposure Management application offers a unified administrative experience across all Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) applications. It introduces the Admin Console within the Security Exposure Management (SEM) Workspace, allowing administrators to configure Security Exposure Management applications and monitor integrations from a single location.")

[Implementing Unified Security Exposure Management](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/zutRES6UyPXLgGPH_zg8eA "This section guides you through the entire process of implementing Unified Security Exposure Management (USEM) on your ServiceNow AI Platform instance. It provides detailed instructions on how to download the application from the ServiceNow Store, install it, and configure it to optimize your security workflows.")

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