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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

You're reading from   Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions Develop scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language

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Product type Course
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647438
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Compute 17. Storage and Databases 18. Networking 19. Security 20. Machine Learning and Big Data 21. Management Tools 22. Best Practices 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Automatic recon and defense


"Automating security" has been a buzzphrase in the world of information security since the dawn of Cloud. It refers to a wide range of products which provide security by monitoring logs and bringing intelligence into processing. The Google Cloud APIs provide us with a plethora of options to monitor and take actions programmatically against events.

For this recipe, let us suppose that someone has compromised our programmatic access to GCP and has started launching unauthorized instances in our project. We'll need a way to identify such incidents and take defensive action against such events. We'll make some assumptions as follows:

  • Regular users of the account are allowed only to create g1-small and n1-standard machines
  • The controls on user access for the above are set using IAM, which are not covered as part of this recipe
  • The authority under which the Python program will run is not compromised; that is, the authority exists on a different security plane than that...
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