--- title: Security Exposure Management Workspace description: The Security Exposure Management Workspace provides a unified, role-based environment where security teams can investigate exposures, take remediation actions, configure automation, and track risk reduction progress in one place. It centralizes visibility across findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and administration, helping teams collaborate efficiently and respond to risks with clarity and speed. locale: en-US canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/security-management/sem-workspace-user-interface.html release: australia topic_type: concept last_updated: "2026-09-03" reading_time_minutes: 7 keywords: [Security exposure management, workspace, Finding, Remediation, Watch topic] breadcrumb: [Explore, Unified Security Exposure Management, Security Operations] --- # Security Exposure Management Workspace The Security Exposure Management Workspace provides a unified, role-based environment where security teams can investigate exposures, take remediation actions, configure automation, and track risk reduction progress in one place. It centralizes visibility across findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and administration, helping teams collaborate efficiently and respond to risks with clarity and speed. ## Security Exposure Management Workspace benefits The workspace provides multiple views designed for specific workflows. Prioritize critical issues, approve exceptions, manage remediation plans, and configure automation, from one location without switching tools or interfaces. In the workspace, you can: - Gain real-time visibility into your exposure landscape with dashboards and AI-driven insights - Act faster and smarter with automated workflows and prioritized remediation - Ensure compliance through centralized governance and exception management - Improve collaboration with role-based views tailored to each team’s responsibilities Role-based views ensure that security analysts, remediation owners, vulnerability managers, governance teams, and administrators work with shared awareness and act confidently based on the latest insights. ## Workspace views and capabilities Each view in the Security Exposure Management Workspace is designed for a specific purpose and role, providing targeted functionality to manage security exposures effectively. |View|Key Functions|Primary users|Key Actions| |----|-------------|-------------|-----------| |[Finding view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-findings-view.md)|Gain a clear, real-time understanding of your exposure landscape through dashboards that surface risks and insight-driven priorities|Security analysts|Explore default or custom dashboards, drill into detailed findings, initiate remediation activities, and use Now Assist insights to prioritize critical issues and respond faster| |[Watch Topics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-watch-topic.md)|Continuously track and monitor specific high-priority vulnerability categories that require ongoing attention or strategic focus|Threat analysts, CISOs, Vulnerability managers|Create and refine watch topics, monitor trends and severity changes, evaluate business impact, trigger remediation efforts when thresholds are met| |[AI Security Exposure Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/ai-security-exposure-home.md)|Access the entire attack surface across various types of AI findings on the AI Security Exposure Management dashboard with the AI Exposures module.|Vulnerability analysts, vulnerability managers, and Chief Information Security Officers \(CISO\)|AI Security Exposure Management integrates with third-party AI security products to help you manage various types of potential AI exposure across your environment.| |[Cloud Exposure view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vr-cloud-exposure-view-db.md)|Gain a unified view to monitor and respond to top cloud risks through multiple lenses, including assets, images, and regulatory standards.|Vulnerability managers, Security analysts|View risk by cloud asset, drill into asset and finding details, and initiate remediation activities.| |[Approvals](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-unified-approval-rules-explore.md)|Manage and track all vulnerability and compliance exception approvals in a single, unified workflow with full visibility into request status and urgency|Governance & Risk teams, approvers|Review contextual details for each approval request, take approval actions, view overdue and pending items, access finding details, and record comments or decisions directly| |[Remediation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-workspaces-ui-remediation-module.md)|Plan, manage, and track remediation work across teams to ensure timely and effective resolution|Remediation owners, IT operations, security analysts|View assigned tasks, update progress, collaborate with owners, track deadlines| |[Lists](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-workspace-list-page.md)|Access complete lists of findings, remediation tasks, approvals, and exceptions to monitor status, ownership, and progress.|Vulnerability analysts, remediation owners, security managers|Navigate predefined or custom lists, drill into records, create and manage custom lists, monitor status and ownership, and take follow-up actions such as updating records or processing approvals| |[Administration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-administration-console.md)|Configure and govern Security Exposure Management settings centrally to ensure consistent policies, integrations, and automation across the environment|Admins, Platform owners|Manage integrations, configure rules and automation, set up email notifications and templates, map severity levels, and customize visualization settings from a unified Admin Console| |[ServiceNow Otto](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/now-assist-for-usem-landing-ties.md)|Set up, manage, and optimize your generative‑AI solutions on the ServiceNow AI Platform in the Unified Security Exposure Management workspace.|Vulnerability analysts, vulnerability managers, vulnerability admins, and remediation owners|Use generative AI skills and agentic workflows for ServiceNow Otto for Unified Security Exposure Management to optimize and analyze your vulnerability data.| ## Getting started Access the Security Exposure Management Workspace by navigating to **Workspaces** > **Security Exposure Management**. Your available views and actions depend on your assigned role. ## Next steps Explore detailed guidance for each Security Exposure Management Workspace view: [Security Exposure Management Workspace Findings view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-findings-view.md) [Security Exposure Management Workspace Watch Topics](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-watch-topic.md) [Remediation view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-workspaces-ui-remediation-module.md) [Viewing the Cloud Exposure View dashboard](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vr-cloud-exposure-view-db.md) [Security Exposure Management Approvals View](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-unified-approval-rules-explore.md) [Security Exposure Management Workspace List view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-workspace-list-page.md) [Administration in Unified Security Exposure Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sem-administration-console.md) [Implementing Unified Security Exposure Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/configuring-security-exposure-management.md)