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title: Create breach factors
description: Create breach factors to help privacy teams understand the characteristics of a breach and evaluate the related risks. Exercise your flexibility to either use the default breach factors or generate new ones. Additionally, link breach factors to specific regions or implement them universally across multiple regions or selected ones.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/create-breach-factor.html
release: australia
product: Privacy Workspace
classification: privacy-workspace
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Configure privacy breach assessment, Privacy Case Management, Privacy Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Create breach factors

Create breach factors to help privacy teams understand the characteristics of a breach and evaluate the related risks. Exercise your flexibility to either use the default breach factors or generate new ones. Additionally, link breach factors to specific regions or implement them universally across multiple regions or selected ones.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_privacy\_case.privacy\_case\_admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Privacy Case Management** > **Breach Assessment Configuration** > **Breach factor**.

2.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_o2z_hbf_zzb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Label

</td><td>

Category to which the factor belongs. For example, Electronic, Paper, and so on.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Name

</td><td>

Unique name to identify the factor.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Type

</td><td>

Type of preconfigured breach factors with which the factor must be associated.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Application

</td><td>

Name of the application this factor applies to. This field is automatically set to **GRC: Privacy Case Management**.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Active

</td><td>

Option to activate the factor.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Applied to

</td><td>

Location of where the factor is applicable. The options are as follows:-   **All regions**
-   **Specific to a region**


</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Brief description of the factor.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>3.  Select **Submit**.


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