get_security_dashboard

What get_security_dashboard does on NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit

AI agents call get_security_dashboard to retrieve information from NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_security_dashboard is rated Low

This tool retrieves and displays dashboard metrics (incident counts, vulnerability counts, MTTR statistics) without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a read-only query of security monitoring data. The low severity reflects that misuse would only expose visibility into existing security state, not enable unauthorized actions or data modification.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_security_dashboard' and description 'Get security posture dashboard — open incidents by severity, vulnerability counts, mean time to resolve' indicate a retrieval/query operation that aggregates and displays existing security metrics and…

The rule that runs get_security_dashboard safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and NowAIKit — ServiceNow AI Toolkit, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_security_dashboard, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_security_dashboard": {}
  }
}

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