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Platform Security

Platform security provides capabilities to secure the instance.

Security CenterAllow admins to continuously maintain the highest level of security posture and easily monitor for insecure events and behaviors.

[Log Export ServiceLog export service](les-landing-page.md) Log Export Service \(LES\) lets you seamlessly export your instance system and application logs into your enterprise security analytic tools. The service provides a highly scalable and near real-time integration with your analytic tools that is easy to setup and maintain.

LogsLogs module provides a variety of logs that you can use to troubleshoot and debug transactions and events that take place within the instance.Secrets ManagementUse ServiceNow Secrets Management for granular management of access to your passwords to fit your business needs.Code SigningCode Signing creates digital signatures for the data which later are checked to confirm the authenticity and integrity of the data.Antivirus Scanning CapabilitiesGlobal Identity](antivirus-protection.md) [Use Antivirus Scanning to help protect your instance against virus infections that can be introduced by file attachments to your system records, such as incidents, problems, and stories.HTML SanitizerHTML](c_HTMLSanitizer.md) [Remove unwanted code and protect against security concerns such as cross-site scripting attacks by sanitizing HTML markup in HTML fields and translated HTML fields.AuditingAudit](c_AuditedTables.md) [Track record changes on auditing-enabled tables. By default, the system tracks changes to the incident, change, and problem tables, among others.High Security SettingsIcon for working with Core Configuration](c_HighSecuritySettings.md) [High Security Settings refer to several security options available in your instance.Virtual Private Network \(VPN\)Web](c_SetUpAVPN4SNowBusNet.md) [Use a virtual private network \(VPN\) to integrate your instance with external data sources over the Internet.Hardening SettingsHardening](instance-security-hardening-settings/security-hardening-settings.md) [Find detailed descriptions and compliance values for Security Center \(SSC\) hardening settings content

Security Center
ServiceNow Security Center 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.
Instance Security Center
Monitor the compliance level of instance security controls, view security event monitoring metrics, and configure and maintain instance security settings all from within the Instance Security Center. The Instance Security Center consolidates several key security components into a single control console that helps you detect, protect, and respond to instance-based security events.
Hardening settings
The ServiceNow Security Center (SSC) hardening settings content contains detailed descriptions and compliance values for the security-related system properties and plugins in the ServiceNow AI Platform. You can set these properties using the hardening settings app in the Security Center.
Log Export Service (LES)
Log Export Service (LES) lets you seamlessly export your instance system and application logs into your enterprise security analytic tools.
Logs
Logs module provides a variety of logs that you can use to troubleshoot and debug transactions and events that take place within the instance.
Secrets Management
Secrets Management lets you control which applications and users can access sensitive credentials stored on your instance.
Code Signing
Use Code Signing to create digital signatures that prevent unauthorized or tampered External Communication Channel (ECC) queue records from being processed by MID Servers. This cryptographic verification helps maintain the integrity of integrations between ServiceNow and external systems.