Annotate security artifacts

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title: Annotate security artifacts
description: As you are analyzing a case, you can add annotations to any artifact.
locale: en-US
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topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Security artifact analysis, Security Case Management, Threat Intelligence, Enterprise security case management applications, Security Operations]
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# Annotate security artifacts

As you are analyzing a case, you can add annotations to any artifact.

## Before you begin

The Threat Intelligence plugin must be activated to use Security Case Management.

Role required:

-   sn\_ti.case\_user\_write for adding annotations
-   sn\_ti.case\_user\_read to view annotations

## Procedure

1.  Open a case that contains artifacts that you want to annotate.

2.  Click the **Case Artifacts** related list.

3.  Click the tab associated with the artifacts you want to annotate.

    For example, click **Indicators of Compromise** to add annotations to IoCs.

4.  To add an annotation to one or more artifacts, perform the following steps:

    1.  Select the artifacts to which you want to add an annotation.

    2.  Click **Annotate**.

        \[Omitted image "annotations.png"\] Alt text: Add an annotation

    3.  Type the annotation and click **Annotate**.

        The annotation is added to the selected artifacts.

5.  To view annotations for an artifact, click the View annotations \(\[Omitted image "annotation-icon.png"\] Alt text: View Annotations\) icon.

    The existing annotations appear in the Annotations dialog box.

    \[Omitted image "annotations-dialog.png"\] Alt text: Annotations dialog box

6.  You can also enter a new annotation for the artifact in the **Security Annotation** box, and click **Annotate**.


**Parent Topic:**[Security artifact analysis](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/sec-artifact-analysis.md)

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