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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

Chapter 32. Securing Applications and Data

Data is often one of the most important assets of a business, and your ServiceNow instance is likely to contain a lot of it. Companies are often concerned about the mechanisms that protect data in ServiceNow in order to control against various types of loss:

  • Stolen financial information, which can create loss of revenue, customers, and partners as well as leading to fines or legal action
  • Personally identifiable information (PII), which must be secured to ensure that data privacy laws and the privacy of your employees are respected
  • Information regarding the separation of duties and authority checking, such as during approvals and when updating other sensitive information
  • Knowledge-based information, such as trade secrets and other intellectual property

Security should be included from the beginning. The ServiceNow platform provides a wide variety of functions and capabilities to protect against data loss and unauthorized manipulation. In this chapter...