---
title: Complete a security best practice
description: Complete a security best practice to implement security configurations on your ServiceNow instance.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/security-center/complete-a-security-best-practice-on-your-servicenow-instance.html
release: australia
product: Security Center
classification: security-center
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Security Best Practices, Security posture console, Security Center, Platform Security]
---

# Complete a security best practice

Complete a security best practice to implement security configurations on your ServiceNow instance.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

Complete the following steps to implement security best practices on your ServiceNow instance.

## Procedure

1.  Access Security Best Practices by selecting **All** on your ServiceNow instance and then entering **best practice**.

2.  Apply a filter to view security best practices to implement.

    1.  Navigate to the **Best Practices** table in the UI.

    2.  Select the kebab menu, or the item with three vertical dots \(\[Omitted image "ellipsis-vertical-outline-24.svg"\] Alt text: vertical dots\) in the **Status** column.

    3.  Select the **Open** and **In progress** options, and then select **apply**.

3.  Select the name of a security best practice to implement.

4.  Select **Go to next step**.

5.  Select a task step from the **task steps** list.

6.  Select the caret down \(v\) icon to view the implementation instructions for that step.

7.  Read the instructions and then implement them on your ServiceNow instance.

8.  Select **Mark step complete** when you're done with the task.

    **Note:** You can skip the task if you want to come back to it later, or if it doesn't apply to your organization's goals. In addition, you can reopen a completed task step by selecting the task step, and then selecting **Restart step**.

9.  Select **Complete Best Practice**.

    You can complete a security best practice at any time. You don't have to complete all the steps and it's ok if you skip them. However, consider inserting a comment in the Activity subtab when completing a security best practice when you have not completed all the steps for an audit reference.


**Parent Topic:**[Security Best Practices](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/security-center/security-best-practices-manager.md)