---
title: Hardening score comparison
description: Gain visibility to the health of your hardening settings and use this data to improve the security posture of your instance.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/security-center/hardening-score-comparison.html
release: australia
product: Security Center
classification: security-center
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Security hardening, Security configuration console, Security Center, Platform Security]
---

# Hardening score comparison

Gain visibility to the health of your hardening settings and use this data to improve the security posture of your instance.

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This page displays a summary of your hardening compliance and the changes made to your instance that impact this score.

The hardening score comparison page displays hardening settings with changes in compliance status between the dates selected in the **Older date** and **Recent date** fields. With this information you can see how they’ve impacted your hardening compliance score.

-   **Hardening compliance score**

    The card compares the compliance score of your instance on the selected dates as a percentage.

-   **Changed settings' score impact by priority**

    Displays the number of hardening settings that have changed their compliance status since the last score update, organized by priority value.

-   **Changed settings' score impact by security area**

    Displays the number of hardening settings that changed compliance status between the two selected dates, organized by security area.

-   **Changed hardening settings**

    Displays the list of hardening settings that have changed compliance statues between the selected dates. Review settings that became non-compliant and decreased your hardening comparison score for opportunities to make them compliant to increase your score. See [Increase hardening compliance score](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/security-center/increase-hardening-comp-score.md).


**Parent Topic:**[Security hardening](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/security-center/sc-hardening.md)