Security Center release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated April 9, 2026
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    Summary of Security Center release notes

    ServiceNow Security Center is an application comprising specialized tools to help organizations secure their ServiceNow environments. It enables improvement in security posture and compliance through a seamless and efficient user experience. The release notes detail the continuous enhancements, new features, updates, and bug fixes across multiple versions, ensuring customers can leverage the latest security capabilities and integrations.

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    Key Features and Enhancements

    • Security Hardening Baselines: Regular updates to hardening baselines (versions 4 to 8) help keep instance security settings aligned with best practices.
    • Security Tasks: Introduced dashboards for creating, prioritizing, delegating, and tracking platform security tasks, either automated or manual, enhancing security task management.
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM) Tools: New and improved IAM integrations provide access to Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, aiding in managing access misconfigurations and security metrics.
    • Security Posture Dashboards: Multi-instance and single-instance dashboards offer visibility into security posture across production and sub-production environments for comprehensive security monitoring.
    • Security Banner Announcements and Event Notifications: Features to alert administrators of urgent security issues and potential risky events, improving proactive security management.
    • Platform Security Best Practices Manager: Organizes configuration tasks and tracks progress efficiently, helping administrators implement security configurations effectively.
    • Integration Improvements and UI Enhancements: Updated navigation with Admin Center, improved tool overview pages, support for Next Experience UI themes, and embedded instructional videos to enhance usability.
    • New Security Scanning Capabilities: Added security scan suites and enhanced Auditor suite checks to detect risks and enforce security controls.

    Bug Fixes and Stability

    Each release includes numerous defect fixes and stability improvements, addressing issues such as upgrade errors, database warnings, and pre-existing bugs to ensure a reliable and smooth user experience.

    System Requirements and Compatibility

    The minimum supported version for Security Center is the Washington DC release. Customers should consult the ServiceNow Store listing for detailed system requirements and family compatibility to ensure proper deployment.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Maintain a strong and up-to-date security posture with regular hardening baseline updates.
    • Efficiently manage security tasks and track compliance progress through centralized dashboards.
    • Gain enhanced visibility into identity and access misconfigurations and overall security metrics.
    • Receive timely alerts on security threats to enable proactive responses.
    • Benefit from improved user experience and navigation for quicker access to security tools.

    Version history for the Security Center on the ServiceNow Store.

    Important:
    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 3.3.1 - April 2026
    Defect fixes.
    Version 3.3.0 - March 2026
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 8.
      • Accept risk for hardening settings.
    • Fixed: Defect fixes.
    Version 3.2.3 - February 2026
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 7.
      • New Access management console, giving users ability to look at access misconfigurations.
    • Changed:
      • Updated integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center.  Use the updated sections in the Security Center home to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, as well as new Security Metrics for IAM.
    • Fixed: Defect fixes.
    Version 3.2.2 - December 2025
    • New:
      • Security Center hardening baseline version 7.
      • New Access management console, giving users ability to look at access misconfigurations.
    • Changed: Updated integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center.  Use the updated sections in the Security Center home to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity Manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance, as well as new Security Metrics for IAM.
    • Fixed: bug fixes.
    Version 3.1.2 - August 2025
    • Improved: New Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools featured on Security Center. Use the new IAM section in Security Center to access IAM tools such as Machine Identity manager, Access Analyzer, and Scripting Governance.
    • Updated: Bug fixes
    Version 3.0.5 - June 2025
    • New:
      • Security Tasks allows administrators to create, prioritize, delegate and monitor progress for platform security tasks, in a unified dashboard, that are either automatically generated by the platform or manually created.
      • Embedded videos to provide an easier way to learn how to best leverage key tools and navigate the user experiences.
    • Improved:
      • Improved tools overview pages for a consistent experience and easy access to common filtering options.
      • Support Next Experience UI themes which allows to configure the variables for colors, shapes, fonts, and other aspects of the user experience.
    • Updated:
      • Updates to the Security Hardening tool to the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings V6.
      • Bug fixes.
    Version 2.1.2 - June 2025
    Bug fixes.
    Version 1.6.3 - June 2025
    Only minor bugs were addressed in this release.
    Version 3.0.2 - May 2025
    • New:
      • Security Tasks allows administrators to create, prioritize, delegate and monitor progress for platform security tasks, in a unified dashboard, that are either automatically generated by the platform or manually created.
      • Embedded videos to provide an easier way to learn how to best leverage key tools and navigate the user experiences.
    • Improved:
      • Improved tools overview pages for a consistent experience and easy access to common filtering options.
      • Support Next Experience UI themes which allows to configure the variables for colors, shapes, fonts, and other aspects of the user experience.
    • Updated: Updates to the Security Hardening tool to the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings V6.
    Version 2.1.1 - April 2025
    Bug fixes.
    Version 2.1.0 - February 2025
    • Update the Scanner tool's Auditor suite with additional scan checks.
    • Adding 6 new Best Practices.
    • Bug fixes and improvements.
    Version 1.6.2 - January 2025
    Only minor bugs were addressed in this release.
    Version 2.0.4 - December 2024
    Fix upgrade issue introduced from new fixscript.
    Version 2.0.1 - November 2024
    • Changed:
      • Improved navigation and user experience:
        • New Home page integrated in the new Admin Center navigation
        • Three new pages that provides summary information for the three key security tasks with their own navigation to relevant tools:
          • Security Posture
          • Security Configuration
          • Security Monitoring
      • Added new security scan suite Security Controls Activation
        • Review security controls that were recently released
      • Updated Security Hardening tool with the latest Instance Security Hardening Settings baseline v5.0
    Version 1.6.1 - November 2024
    • New features:
      • Security Banner Announcements - Helps admin to view urgent security issues sent from Servicenow.
      • Multi-instance Security posture dashboard & Single-instance Security posture dashboard: Helps admin to view their production environment and be able to view security posture information across that production instance and its subprod instances to quickly and easily understand their environment overall security posture.
      • Security Event Notifications - Helps admin to get notified when an indicative of a potential risky security events occurs.
    Version 1.6.0 - August 2024
    • New:
      • Security Banner Announcements - Helps admin to view urgent security issues sent from ServiceNow.
      • Multi-instance Security posture dashboard & Single-instance Security posture dashboard: Helps admin to view their production environment and be able to view security posture information across that production instance and its subprod instances to quickly and easily understand their environment overall security posture.
      • Security Event Notifications - Helps admin to get notified when an indicative of a potential risky security events occurs.
    Version 1.5.4 - July 2024
    • New Features:
      • Platform Security Best Practices manager V1 - Helps admin complete their configuration tasks effectively and efficiently by providing them a tool that organizes the many tasks involved in instance security configuration and allows them to keep track of the progress.
      • Implement AppSec Security Hardening Baseline V4.
      • Navigation improvements between Admin Center and Security Center.
    • System requirements: Min. supported version: Washington DC
    Version 1.5.3 - May 2024
    • New Features:
      • Platform Security Best Practices manager V1 - Helps admin complete their configuration tasks effectively and efficiently by providing them a tool that organizes the many tasks involved in instance security configuration and allows them to keep track of the progress.
      • Implement AppSec Security Hardening Baseline V4.
      • Navigation improvements between Admin Center and Security Center.
    Version 1.4.0 - February 2024
    Minor fixes.
    Version 1.3.4 - January 2024
    • Added support for the Washington family release.
    • Some minor fixes.
    Version 1.3.2 - November 2023
    • New: Added 42 new settings
    • Changed:
      • CVSS score change for following settings:
        • Enable Account Recovery
        • Enable Updated Version of Multi SSO Plugin
      • Settings compliance status change for following settings:
        • Set Minimal Password Length
        • Enable Email OTP for Multi-Factor Authentication
        • Disallow Infected Files Download
    • Fixed: Pre-existing issues within security center
    Version 1.2.0 - August 2023
    New: Metrics Tool added 'Adaptive Authentication' metrics category and metrics.
    Version 1.1.11 - July 2023
    Fixed:
    1. Removed 'Block Direct Inserts to MID ECC Queue for Code Signing Requirement' setting.
    2. Fixed Postgres DB syntax error warnings.
    Version 1.1.9 - May 2023

    ServiceNow Security Center is an application that consists of a set of purpose-built tools designed to help organizations maintain the security of their ServiceNow deployments. Using Security Center, organizations can improve their security posture, strengthen their compliance levels, and do so with a seamless user experience.