Get security posture dashboard — open incidents by severity, vulnerability counts, mean time to resolve
AI agents call get_security_dashboard to retrieve information from ServiceNow-MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and displays security dashboard information (incidents, vulnerabilities, metrics). It performs no side effects, creates no data, executes no commands, and deletes nothing. It is a pure read operation that queries existing ServiceNow records for reporting and visibility purposes.
From the tool's definition Tool name and description indicate retrieval-only operations: 'Get security posture dashboard', 'open incidents by severity', 'vulnerability counts', 'mean time to resolve' — all queries that return metrics and data without modification, creation, or deletion.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get security posture dashboard — open incidents by severity, vulnerability counts, mean time to resolve. It is categorised as a Read tool in the ServiceNow-MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the ServiceNow- MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_security_dashboard: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches ServiceNow-MCP. Nothing to install.
get_security_dashboard is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_security_dashboard rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_security_dashboard. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_security_dashboard is provided by the ServiceNow- MCP server (tedorigawa001/servicenow-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
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