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title: Exploring security in AI Control Tower
description: The security area of AI Control Tower offers a dashboard-based view of your AI asset security metrics. In addition to tracking metrics, the security area contains the agent map, a tool that gives a node-graph visualization of the relationships between your AI agents, agentic workflows, and tools.
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last_updated: "2026-05-02"
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# Exploring security in AI Control Tower

The security area of AI Control Tower offers a dashboard-based view of your AI asset security metrics. In addition to tracking metrics, the security area contains the agent map, a tool that gives a node-graph visualization of the relationships between your AI agents, agentic workflows, and tools.

## Managing AI asset security

\[Omitted image "gov-sec-overview.png"\] Alt text: AI Control Tower Security area showing Overview tab metrics.

Use the security area of AI Control Tower to monitor and improve your security posture across your AI asset ecosystem. Monitor overview, design-time, runtime, and post-runtime metrics to identify problem areas and troubleshoot LLM guardrail policy violations. For details about every metric, see [Managing AI asset security reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md).

## Security users

|User|Description|
|----|-----------|
|AI steward|Monitors overall security posture of the AI asset ecosystem. Uses the security dashboard to maintain accountability for AI-related security threats.|

## Security benefits

|Benefit|Feature|Users|
|-------|-------|-----|
|Review and troubleshoot access issues, critical AI asset security events, overall security posture, and other indicators.|[Overview metrics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md)|AI steward|
|Evaluate LLM model-level security exposure.|[Design-time metrics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md)|AI steward|
|Stop the execution of agents that potentially violate LLM guardrails in real time.|[Runtime metrics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md)|AI steward|
|Review AI asset security events to audit AI asset security threats and mitigate risk.|[Post-runtime metrics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md) and [AI agent containment using kill switch protocol manually](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-exploring-ai-agent-containment.md)|AI steward|

## What to explore next

To learn more about configuring and using AI Control Tower, see:

-   [Configuring security metrics in AI Control Tower](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-configuring.md)
-   [Discover your agent network with the map](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-use-map.md)
-   [Monitor AI asset security events and recommendations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-use-events.md)
-   [Managing AI asset security reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-reference.md)

-   **[Basic concepts for AI asset security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-basic-concepts.md)**  
Learn more about the AI asset security score, agent map, AI asset security events, and internal and external agents.
-   **[AI agent containment using kill switch protocol manually](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-exploring-ai-agent-containment.md)**  
Explore how detecting malicious activity and deactivating AI agents works to enforce guardrails and help improve your security posture.

**Parent Topic:**[Managing AI asset security with AI Control Tower](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-sec-landing.md)