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Ensure That the Log Metric Filter and Alerts Exist for Custom Role Changes (Automated)
Profile Applicability
• Level 1
Description
Establish a metric filter and alarm for changes to Identity and Access Management (IAM) role creation, deletion and updating activities.
Rationale
Google Cloud IAM provides predefined roles that give granular access to specific Google Cloud Platform resources and prevent unwanted access to other resources. However, to cater to organization-specific needs, Cloud IAM also provides the ability to create custom roles. Project owners and administrators with the Organization Role Administrator role or the IAM Role Administrator role can create custom roles. Monitoring role creation, deletion and updating activities will help in identifying any over-privileged role at early stages.
Impact
Enabling of logging may result in your project being charged for the additional logs usage.
Audit
From Console:
Ensure that the prescribed log metric is present:
- Go to
Logging/Logs-based Metrics
by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/metrics. - In the
User-defined Metrics
section, ensure that at least one metric<Log_Metric_Name>
is present with filter text:
resource.type="iam_role"
AND protoPayload.methodName = "google.iam.admin.v1.CreateRole"
OR protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.DeleteRole"
OR protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.UpdateRole"
Ensure that the prescribed alerting policy is present:
- Go to
Alerting
by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerting. - Under the
Policies
section, ensure that at least one alert policy exists for the log metric above. Clicking on the policy should show that it is configured with a condition. For example,Violates when: Any logging.googleapis.com/user/<Log Metric Name> stream
is above a threshold of zero(0) for greater than zero(0) seconds
means that the alert will trigger for any new owner change. Verify that the chosen alerting thresholds make sense for the user's organization. - Ensure that the appropriate notifications channels have been set up.
From Command Line:
Ensure that the prescribed log metric is present:
- List the log metrics:
gcloud beta logging metrics list --format json
- Ensure that the output contains at least one metric with the filter set to:
resource.type="iam_role" AND protoPayload.methodName = "google.iam.admin.v1.CreateRole" OR
protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.DeleteRole" OR
protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.UpdateRole"
- Note the value of the property
metricDescriptor.type
for the identified metric, in the formatlogging.googleapis.com/user/<Log Metric Name>
.
Ensure that the prescribed alerting policy is present:
- List the alerting policies:
gcloud alpha monitoring policies list --format json
- Ensure that the output contains an least one alert policy where:
conditions.conditionThreshold.filter
is set tometric.type=\"logging.googleapis.com/user/<Log Metric Name>\"
- AND
enabled
is set totrue
.
Remediation
From Console:
Create the prescribed log metric:
- Go to
Logging/Logs-based Metrics
by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/metrics and click "CREATE METRIC". - Click the down arrow symbol on the
Filter Bar
at the rightmost corner and selectConvert to Advanced Filter
. - Clear any text and add:
resource.type="iam_role"
AND protoPayload.methodName = "google.iam.admin.v1.CreateRole"
OR protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.DeleteRole"
OR protoPayload.methodName="google.iam.admin.v1.UpdateRole"
- Click
Submit Filter
. Display logs appear based on the filter text entered by the user. - In the
Metric Editor
menu on the right, fill out the name field. SetUnits
to1
(default) andType
toCounter
. This ensures that the log metric counts the number of log entries matching the advanced logs query. - Click
Create Metric
.
Create a prescribed Alert Policy:
- Identify the new metric that was just created under the section
User-defined Metrics
at https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/metrics. - Click the 3-dot icon in the rightmost column for the metric and select
Create alert from Metric
. A new page displays. - Fill out the alert policy configuration and click
Save
. Choose the alerting threshold and configuration that makes sense for the user's organization. For example, a threshold of zero(0) for the most recent value triggers a notification for every owner change in the project:
Set Aggregator to Count
Set Configuration:
- Condition: above
- Threshold: 0
- For: most recent value
- Configure the desired notification channels in the section
Notifications
. - Name the policy and click
Save
.
From Command Line:
Create the prescribed Log Metric:
- Use the command: gcloud beta logging metrics create
- Reference for command usage: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/logging/metrics/create
Create the prescribed Alert Policy:
- Use the command: gcloud alpha monitoring policies create
- Reference for command usage: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/monitoring/policies/create
References
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/logs-based-metrics/
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/custom-metrics/
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/tools/gcloud-logging
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-custom-roles