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Google Cloud Platform Logs

Many organizations are moving towards a multi-cloud environment and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is another big player that you need to be aware of how to monitor. GCP Cloud Audit Logs enables you to answer the following questions:

Who did what?
When was it done?
Where was it done?

Using Microsoft Sentinel, you can ingest GCP Identity and Access Management (IAM) logs, which can be used to see admin activity (audit logs), which includes “admin write” operations, and Data Access audit logs, which includes “admin read” operations.

Once the connector is configured, the status will appear similar to the sample screenshot that follows:

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Figure 17.11: GCP IAM connector

Once the connector is configured and ingesting data, you can perform queries using KQL. The example below is checking all GCP IAM logs and filtering the result to show only the following fields: SourceSystem, resource_labels_method_s...

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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

Published in: Sep 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803248776

Authors (2)

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes is a professor at EC-Council University for their BSc in Cybersecurity and a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Yuri has an MSc in Cybersecurity from UTICA College, PhD student in the Cybersecurity Leadership program at Capitol Technology University, and an MBA from FGV Brazil. He currently holds the following certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence, CompTIA CySa+, E-CEH, E-CSA, E-CHFI, E-CND, CompTIA, Security+, Network+ and CASP. He has published over 27 books, mostly on information security.
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.
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