<h2>Security Event Notifications</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Security Event Notifications" /><meta name="abstract" content="View, manage, and analyze the default security event notification policies on your ServiceNow instance, as well as access the functionality to create custom policies." /><meta name="description" content="View, manage, and analyze the default security event notification policies on your ServiceNow instance, as well as access the functionality to create custom policies." /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/concept/sc-monitor-console.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/general/concept/platsec-sublanding.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/concept/sec-center-v2.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/task/create-a-policy.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/task/modify-security-event-notification-policies.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/task/configure-preferences-for-security-event-notifications.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../administer/security-center/concept/security-event-notifications-history.html" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2024-06-17" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2025-03-20" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="security-policies" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Security Event Notifications</title></head><body id="security-policies"> <div class="breadcrumb"><a class="link" href="../../../administer/general/concept/platsec-sublanding.html" title="Platform security provides capabilities to secure the instance.">Platform Security</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../administer/security-center/concept/sec-center-v2.html" title="ServiceNow is an application that consists of a set of tools designed to help your organization maintain the security of your ServiceNow deployments. Using Security Center, you can improve security posture and strengthen compliance levels with a seamless user experience.">Security Center</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Security Event Notifications</h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">View, manage, and analyze the default security event notification policies on your ServiceNow instance, as well as access the functionality to create custom policies.</p> <p class="p">Access Security Event Notifications from the Security Center homepage by opening the <span class="ph uicontrol">Security Monitoring Console</span> in the <span class="ph uicontrol">Security Consoles</span> section, then selecting the <span class="ph uicontrol">Security Event Notifications</span> tab.</p> <img class="image" id="security-policies__image_i2b_dyp_ccc" width="800" src="../images/security-event-notifications-overview.png" alt="Security events notifications" /> <p class="p">Customize and create notification policies that trigger email notifications when users perform actions in the Now Platform that might be insecure or require admin monitoring.</p> <p class="p">Admins can customize the values for the default policies, clone, and edit default policies or create their own custom ones.</p> <div class="section" id="security-policies__section_th3_4m1_ccc"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Security policies</h2> <div class="p">The Security Event Notifications console displays important information regarding the security policies on your instance. This table includes columns displaying: <div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="security-policies__table_gfh_dbt_wbc" class="table" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><colgroup><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><col style="width:66.66666666666666%" /></colgroup><thead class="thead" style="text-align:left;"><tr class="row"><th class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d306168e81">Label</th><th class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d306168e84">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Name</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The name of the security event notification policy.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Status</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The status of a policy can be either active or inactive.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Updated</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The date and time of when the policy was last updated.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Updated by</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The user that updated a policy.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Last triggered on</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The date and time the policy last ran.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry nocellnorowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Triggered count last week</td><td class="entry cell-norowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The number of triggers a policy generated the past 7 days.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry row-nocellborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e81 ">Percentage change</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d306168e84 ">The rate of change for weekly triggers, calculated as a percentage.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> For example, if this policy triggers an average of 5 notifications a week and it triggered 10 times last week, that would be a percentage increase of 100%.</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> <p class="p">Select a policy on the table to view more detail, including an overview, settings, and notification history. Select the <span class="ph uicontrol">New custom policy</span> button to create a custom policy tailored to your organization's use cases.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="security-policies__section_g3f_c2d_fdc"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Manage security banner announcements</h2> <p class="p">Select <span class="ph uicontrol">Manage announcement settings</span> to control whether admins receive banner notifications on this instance. For information on these announcements, see <a class="xref" href="scc-banner.html" title="Enable security banner announcements to stay informed about urgent and critical security alerts using high visibility banners visible to administrators within the instance UI.">Security banner announcements</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="related-links"> <ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../../../administer/security-center/task/create-a-policy.html">Create custom security event notification policies</a></strong><br /> Learn how to create custom security event notifications that are specific to your organization's needs. This enables you to monitor actions taken by users and groups on your instance and generate notifications for potential security risks.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../../../administer/security-center/task/modify-security-event-notification-policies.html">Modify security event notification policies</a></strong><br /> Learn how to modify the settings of your security event notification policies.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../../../administer/security-center/task/configure-preferences-for-security-event-notifications.html">Configure preferences for security event notification policies</a></strong><br /> Discover how to customize security event notification policies in <span class="ph">Security Center</span> to align with your organization's specific needs.</li><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../../../administer/security-center/concept/security-event-notifications-history.html">Security Event Notifications history</a></strong><br /> Explore the complete history of security event notifications on your instance.</li></ul> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../../administer/security-center/concept/sc-monitor-console.html" title="Supervise security notifications and metrics to stay informed about potential security risks on your instance.">Security monitoring console</a></div> </div> </div></body></html></div>