
Explore the core ServiceNow risk and compliance applications—policy and compliance management, risk management, and audit management—and their connections to vendor risk, security operations, and IT workflows for governance and compliance.
Identify and align key risk and compliance roles: risk manager, compliance manager, control owner, risk owner, auditors, and executives, to ensure clear ownership, testing, approvals, and oversight.
Explore the ServiceNow platform's core data model, workflow engine, and reporting tools that support risk and compliance; connect risks, policies, controls, and audits through interconnected tables, forms, and dashboards.
Explore how ServiceNow uses tables, forms, and navigation to manage risk and compliance data. Learn how risks, policies, and controls connect through linked records and clear, actionable views.
Explore how risk, compliance, and policy modules in ServiceNow interlink to form an integrated governance framework, tracing policies to controls and risks to drive proactive governance.
Learn how the policy and compliance application in ServiceNow links policies, standards, and controls to automate compliance, track testing and evidence, and generate management-ready reports.
Learn how policies establish principles and expectations for security, privacy, and regulatory compliance, while standards translate these into measurable rules such as password length and character requirements.
Learn how to create and manage controls to reduce risks and prove compliance by applying preventive, detective, and corrective measures, with ownership, lifecycle, and risk mapping.
Learn how organizations collect reliable evidence to prove control effectiveness and complete attestation by the control owner. Discover how automated and manual evidence support audits and regulators in validating compliance.
Learn how continuous monitoring and control testing keep risk and compliance in check by regularly assessing design and operating effectiveness, using automation and reporting for early warning and faster remediation.
Explore how the risk management application in ServiceNow identifies risks, assesses likelihood and impact, and tracks them in a single register, giving leadership clear visibility, dashboards, and governance-friendly mitigation.
Identify and assess risks by using workshops, interviews, and checklists to capture internal and external threats, then record them in a risk register and prioritize by likelihood and impact.
Apply consistent risk scoring to compare risks, allocate resources, and explain decisions using likelihood and impact, with qualitative, quantitative, and semi-quantitative approaches and risk matrices.
Learn how to respond to identified risks with four strategies: avoidance, mitigation, transfer, and acceptance, and develop practical risk mitigation plans while continuously monitoring effectiveness.
Identify risks early, assess their likelihood and impact, plan responses, monitor continuously, and close risks with lessons learned to maintain an active risk register.
Master ServiceNow audit management by organizing planning, fieldwork, findings, and reporting in one integrated platform for consistent, visible audits.
Define audit objectives and boundaries through planning and scoping to keep the review focused on key risks, stakeholders, resources, timelines, and work programs.
Execute audit engagements by turning planning into action: collect evidence, test controls, conduct interviews and document findings with professional judgment to identify risks and improvements.
Identify findings from audits, classify issues by severity, plan remediation with roles and deadlines, track progress with dashboards, verify actions, and close issues with documented evidence.
Integrate audits with vendor risk management to provide independent assessment of contracts, SLAs, and compliance. Ensure ongoing monitoring of data security, regulatory compliance, and vendor stability.
Integrate policies, compliance requirements, and risk data into audits to align with governance and detect gaps, ensuring up-to-date controls and regulatory adherence.
Explore indicators, metrics, and dashboards to monitor risk and compliance, turning simple signals into data-driven insights for informed decisions and stakeholder communication.
Align risk management and compliance with business objectives to enable safer, efficient operations by mapping risks to goals, prioritizing critical threats, integrating processes, and using dashboards to measure alignment.
Automate risk and compliance tasks with workflows driven by triggers, actions, and conditions. Receive targeted notifications, reduce delays, improve accuracy, and provide transparency while monitoring performance for continuous improvement.
Learn how performance analytics tracks risk posture and compliance, turning data into reports and dashboards to monitor metrics like open risks and remediation time.
Explore the GRC workbench, a central hub to plan, track, and implement governance, risk, and compliance, linking risks to controls and policies with dashboards, tasks, and reports.
Learn how to keep risk and compliance apps accurate and up to date through data validation, continuous monitoring, access management, policy updates, health checks, automation, and thorough documentation.
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This course provides a comprehensive journey into mastering Risk and Compliance within the ServiceNow platform, equipping learners with both foundational knowledge and advanced skills to effectively implement, manage, and optimize governance, risk, and compliance processes. Starting with an introduction to risk and compliance concepts in ServiceNow, learners will gain an understanding of the platform’s dedicated applications, their purpose, and the key roles and responsibilities involved in managing them.
The course then builds upon ServiceNow platform fundamentals, exploring how core capabilities such as tables, forms, navigation, and relationships between policy, risk, and compliance modules create the backbone for effective governance and oversight.
A major focus is placed on Policy and Compliance Management, where learners will gain hands-on knowledge in defining and managing policies, standards, and controls. Emphasis is given to real-world practices such as gathering compliance evidence, performing attestations, conducting continuous monitoring, and executing control testing to ensure adherence to regulatory and organizational requirements.
The Risk Management component explores how risks are identified, assessed, scored, and prioritized using different methodologies, while also covering risk response strategies, mitigation planning, and ongoing monitoring throughout the risk lifecycle.
The course further expands into Audit Management, offering learners insights into planning, scoping, and executing audit engagements, as well as managing findings, issues, and remediation efforts. It highlights how ServiceNow helps organizations streamline audit processes while maintaining transparency and accountability.
In addition, learners will explore how ServiceNow integrates risk and compliance efforts with operational activities, vendor risk management, and other business objectives. The use of indicators, metrics, and dashboards is also covered to help participants track performance and generate meaningful insights for stakeholders.
Advanced capabilities are introduced to showcase the power of automation, performance analytics, and GRC Workbench for more effective implementation and management. Learners will gain practical skills in automating workflows, leveraging reporting tools, and applying best practices to maintain a robust risk and compliance environment within ServiceNow.
By the end of this course, participants will have the skills to design, implement, and sustain ServiceNow-based risk and compliance programs that align with organizational goals, regulatory standards, and industry best practices.
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