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Storage Buckets Should Have A Retention Policy Defined
More Info:
Storage Buckets should have a retention policy defined to add an extra layer of protection, for instance, to assist recovery in case of an accidental deletion.
Risk Level
Low
Address
Security
Compliance Standards
CBP
Triage and Remediation
Remediation
Sure, here are the step by step instructions to remediate the storage bucket retention policy misconfiguration in GCP using the GCP console:
- Open the GCP console and navigate to the Cloud Storage section.
- Select the bucket for which you want to set the retention policy.
- Click on the “Edit bucket retention” button at the top of the page.
- In the “Retention period” section, select the desired retention period for the bucket. Note: The retention period specifies how long objects in the bucket must be retained before they can be deleted.
- Select the “Locked” option to prevent the retention policy from being removed or reduced. Note: This is an optional step, but it is recommended to prevent accidental removal of the retention policy.
- Click the “Save” button to apply the retention policy to the bucket.
That’s it! You have now remediated the storage bucket retention policy misconfiguration in GCP using the GCP console.
To remediate the misconfiguration “Storage Buckets Should Have A Retention Policy Defined” in GCP using GCP CLI, follow the below steps:
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Open the Cloud Shell in your GCP console.
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Run the following command to list all the storage buckets in your GCP project:
gsutil ls
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Identify the bucket for which you want to define the retention policy.
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Run the following command to set the retention policy for the identified bucket:
gsutil retention set <retention_period> gs://<bucket_name>
Replace
<retention_period>
with the duration for which you want to retain the objects in the bucket. For example, if you want to retain the objects in the bucket for 365 days, then you can set the retention period to 1 year. You can specify the retention period in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years. For example, to set the retention period to 1 year, you can use the following command:gsutil retention set 1y gs://<bucket_name>
Replace
<bucket_name>
with the name of the bucket for which you want to set the retention policy. -
Verify the retention policy by running the following command:
gsutil retention get gs://<bucket_name>
This command will display the retention policy for the specified bucket.
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Repeat the above steps for all the storage buckets in your GCP project to ensure that all the buckets have a retention policy defined.
By following the above steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration “Storage Buckets Should Have A Retention Policy Defined” in GCP using GCP CLI.
To remediate the misconfiguration of storage buckets not having a retention policy defined in GCP using Python, you can follow the below steps:
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First, you need to install the Google Cloud Storage module for Python. You can install it using the following command:
pip install google-cloud-storage
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Next, you need to authenticate with GCP using a service account. You can create a service account and download its JSON key file from the GCP console. Then, you can set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the path of the JSON key file.export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/keyfile.json
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After that, you need to list all the buckets in your GCP project. You can do this using the following code:
from google.cloud import storage storage_client = storage.Client() buckets = storage_client.list_buckets() for bucket in buckets: print(bucket.name)
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Once you have the list of all the buckets, you can set a retention policy for each bucket using the
Bucket
class in thegoogle-cloud-storage
module. You can set the retention policy to a specific number of days using theretention_period
parameter.from google.cloud import storage storage_client = storage.Client() buckets = storage_client.list_buckets() for bucket in buckets: bucket.retention_period = 30 bucket.patch()
In the above example, the retention policy is set to 30 days for all the buckets. You can change the value of
retention_period
as per your requirement. -
Finally, you can verify that the retention policy has been set for each bucket by listing the bucket metadata and checking the
retentionPolicy
field.from google.cloud import storage storage_client = storage.Client() buckets = storage_client.list_buckets() for bucket in buckets: metadata = bucket.get_iam_policy() print(metadata.retentionPolicy)
The above code will print the retention policy for each bucket.
By following the above steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration of storage buckets not having a retention policy defined in GCP using Python.