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Configure Essential Contacts for Organization (Manual)
This rule has been changed to manual, see Manual Policies for CIS GCP 2.0.0 for details. In CIS GCP 2.0.0, CIS changed the assessment status to automated.
Profile Applicability
• Level 1
Description
Configure Essential Contacts to designate email addresses for Google Cloud services to notify of important technical or security information.
Rationale
Many Google Cloud services, such as Cloud Billing, send out notifications to share important information with Google Cloud users. By default, these notifications are sent to members with certain Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. With Essential Contacts, you can customize who receives notifications by providing your own list of contacts.
Impact
There is no charge for Essential Contacts.
Audit
From Console:
- Go to
Essential Contacts
by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/essential-contacts - Make sure the organization appears in the resource selector at the top of the page. The resource selector tells you what project, folder, or organization you are currently managing contacts for.
- Ensure that appropriate email addresses are configured for each of the following notification categories:
Legal
Security
Suspension
Technical
Technical Incidents
Alternatively, appropriate email addresses can be configured for the All
notification category to receive all possible important notifications.
From Command Line:
- To list all configured organization Essential Contacts run a command:
gcloud essential-contacts list --organization=<ORGANIZATION_ID>
- Ensure at least one appropriate email address is configured for each of the following notification categories:
LEGAL
SECURITY
SUSPENSION
TECHNICAL
TECHNICAL_INCIDENTS
Alternatively, appropriate email addresses can be configured for the ALL
notification category to receive all possible important notifications.
Remediation
From Console:
- Go to
Essential Contacts
by visitinghttps://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/essential-contacts/
. - Make sure the organization appears in the resource selector at the top of the page. The resource selector tells you what project, folder, or organization you are currently managing contacts for.
- Click
+Add contact
. - In the
Email
andConfirm Email
fields, enter the email address of the contact. - From the
Notification categories
drop-down menu, select the notification categories that you want the contact to receive communications for. - Click
Save
.
From Command Line:
- To add an organization Essential Contacts run a command:
gcloud essential-contacts create --email=<email_address> \
--notification-categories=<notification_categories> \
--organization=<organization_id>
References
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/managing-notification-contacts