Increase hardening compliance score

---
title: Increase hardening compliance score
description: Increase your hardening compliance score by ensuring that the hardening settings are compliant with the system's recommendations.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/security-center/increase-hardening-comp-score.html
release: australia
product: Security Center
classification: security-center
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Hardening compliance score trend, Security hardening, Security configuration console, Security Center, Platform Security]
---

# Increase hardening compliance score

Increase your hardening compliance score by ensuring that the hardening settings are compliant with the system's recommendations.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

Identify non-compliant hardening settings with the highest score impact on your instance. Review them to see whether you can comply with system recommendations so that you can increase your overall compliance score.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Hardening** > **All settings**.

2.  Filter Compliance Status column to view only non-compliant hardening settings.

3.  Select **Score Impact** to sort from largest to smallest.

4.  Select settings and review the setting details to decide whether you want to comply with recommendations.

    \[Omitted image "hardening-setting-overview.png"\] Alt text: hardening setting page in UI

5.  Make the hardening setting compliant.

6.  If you update a non-compliant hardening score to make it compliant, go to the Homepage and select **Update score** to view the most up-to-date score.

    The hardening score is rounded up. A score of 86.75% will be rounded up to 87.


**Parent Topic:**[Hardening compliance score trend](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/security-center/score-trend.md)