Cloud Monitoring Should Monitor IAM Authentication Events Count
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Ensure Cloud Monitoring monitors IAM authentication events count.Risk Level
MediumAddress
SecurityCompliance Standards
SOC2, HITRUSTTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration of not monitoring IAM authentication events count in GCP, you can follow the below steps using GCP console:
- Go to the GCP console and navigate to the “Security Command Center” page.
- Click on the “Dashboard” tab and select the project for which you want to enable monitoring for IAM authentication events count.
- On the dashboard, you will see a list of security findings. Look for the finding titled “IAM Authentication Events Count” and click on it.
- In the finding details page, click on the “Remediation” tab.
- Under the “Remediation steps” section, you will see the steps to enable monitoring for IAM authentication events count.
- Follow the steps to enable monitoring for IAM authentication events count.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of not monitoring IAM authentication events count in GCP using GCP CLI, follow these steps:Replace Replace This command will list all the sinks in your GCP project.Replace Replace
- Open the terminal and ensure that you have installed and authenticated the GCP CLI.
- Run the following command to enable the monitoring of IAM authentication events count:
[SINK_NAME] with a name for the sink, [PROJECT_ID] with the ID of your GCP project, and [DATASET_NAME] with the name of the BigQuery dataset where you want to store the logs.- Run the following command to grant the required permissions to the sink:
[PROJECT_ID] with the ID of your GCP project and [SINK_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL] with the email address of the service account that will be used to write logs to BigQuery.- Run the following command to verify that the sink has been created successfully:
- Run the following command to test the sink:
[LOG_NAME] with a name for the log.- Finally, verify that the logs have been successfully written to BigQuery by running the following command:
[DATASET_NAME] with the name of the BigQuery dataset and [TABLE_NAME] with the name of the table where the logs are stored.By following these steps, you will be able to remediate the misconfiguration of not monitoring IAM authentication events count in GCP using GCP CLI.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration of not monitoring IAM authentication events count in GCP using Python, follow these steps:These steps will remediate the misconfiguration of not monitoring IAM authentication events count in GCP using Python.
- Install the necessary libraries: Install the Google Cloud IAM API client library using the following command:
- Set up authentication: To access the GCP resources, you need to set up authentication. You can do this by creating a service account and downloading its key file. Then, set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALSenvironment variable to the path of the key file.
- Create a client: Create a client object to interact with the IAM API.
- Get the project ID: Get the project ID where you want to monitor the IAM authentication events.
- Create a metric descriptor: Create a metric descriptor for the IAM authentication events count.
- Create a time series: Create a time series for the metric descriptor to monitor the IAM authentication events count.
- Verify the monitoring: Verify that the monitoring is set up correctly by checking the metric in the Cloud Console or by using the following command: