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title: Security incidents in cases
description: In Security Incident Response, you can create cases from security incidents, CIs, and affected users, as well as add those artifacts to existing cases.
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# Security incidents in cases

In Security Incident Response, you can create cases from security incidents, CIs, and affected users, as well as add those artifacts to existing cases.

-   **[Create a case from security incidents](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/create-cases-from-security-incidents.md)**  
In Security Incident Response, you can create cases from security incidents. After the security incidents have been used to create a new case, you can use Security Case Management to analyze the data.
-   **[Add security incidents to an existing case](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/add-sec-inc-to-cases.md)**  
You can add security incidents to one or more existing cases. After the security incidents have been added to cases, you can use Security Case Management to analyze the data.

**Parent Topic:**[Case creation from security artifacts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/case-creation-from-security-artifacts.md)

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