Elevate your role in ServiceNow Studio

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title: Elevate your role in ServiceNow Studio
description: Elevate your role to security\_admin in ServiceNow Studio to configure roles and access control lists \(ACLs\).
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product: ServiceNow Studio Classic
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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# Elevate your role in ServiceNow Studio

Elevate your role to security\_admin in ServiceNow Studio to configure roles and access control lists \(ACLs\).

## Before you begin

Role required: admin, or another role that can be elevated.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **App Engine** > **ServiceNow Studio**.

2.  Select the **User Profile** icon \[Omitted image "sn-studio-settings-icon.png"\] Alt text: in the activity bar.

3.  Select **Elevate role**.

4.  Select the **security\_admin** role.

    The security\_admin role grants modification access to high security settings and enables you to modify the access control list \(ACL\). For more information, see [Elevated privilege roles](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-security/c_ElevatedPrivilege.md).

    \[Omitted image "sn-studio-security-admin.png"\] Alt text: Elevate to the security\_admin role to configure roles and access control lists.

5.  Select **Update**.


**Parent Topic:**[Managing access to ServiceNow Studio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/application-development/servicenow-studio-classic/manage-access-to-servicenow-studio.md)