Cloud permissions for collecting Cloud Configuration Governance keys

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The Cloud Configuration Governance requires appropriate cloud permissions to collect the base system configuration keys from the cloud. Therefore, you must set the appropriate permissions in the cloud to suit the needs of your organization.

Note: Starting with Cloud Configuration Governance version 1.3.7, the base system contents are moved to the CCG Content Pack. Install the CCG Content Pack to access the base system Cloud Configuration Governance contents.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacenter

Cloud Configuration Governance uses the following items to collect the configuration key for the AWS datacenter configuration keys:

  • Resource collector: Cloud Service Account
  • Cloud API used: Action: DescribeRegions
  • Cloud permission: ec2: DescribeRegions
Configuration key Data type
AWS:EC2:VM:DescribeRegions String

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users

Cloud Configuration Governance uses the following items to collect the configuration key for the AWS IAM user configuration keys:

  • Resource collector: AWS IAM User Data Collector
  • Cloud API used:
    • Action: GetCredentialReport and GenerateCredentialReport
    • Service: AWS IAM service
  • Cloud permission: Iam:GetCredentialReport and Iam:GenerateCredentialReport
Configuration key Data type
AWS:IAM:Policy:ARN String
AWS:IAM:Policy:AttachmentCount String
AWS:IAM:Policy:CreateDate String
AWS:IAM:Policy:PolicyName String
AWS:IAM:Policy:UpdateDate String
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey1.active Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey1.lastRotated Date
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey1.lastUsedDate Date
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey1.lastUsedRegion String
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey1.lastUsedService String
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey2.active Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey2.lastRotated Date
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey2.lastUsedDate Date
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey2.lastUsedRegion String
AWS:IAM:User:AccessKey2.lastUsedService String
AWS:IAM:User:Certificate1.active Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:Certificate1.lastRotated Date
AWS:IAM:User:Certificate2.active Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:Certificate2.lastRotated Date
AWS:IAM:User:CreationTime Date
AWS:IAM:User:LoginProfile.active Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:MfaEnabled Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:PasswordEnabled Boolean
AWS:IAM:User:PasswordLastChanged String
AWS:IAM:User:PasswordLastUsed Date
AWS:IAM:User:PasswordNextRotation String

AWS object storage

Cloud Configuration Governance uses the following items to collect the configuration key for the AWS IAM user configuration keys:

  • Configuration collector: AWS S3 Encryption Metric Collector
  • Resource collector: AWS S3 Resource Collector
  • Cloud API used: Action: ListBuckets and GetBucketEncryption on S3 service
  • Cloud permission: s3:ListBucket and s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration
Configuration key Data type
AWS:S3:Encryption:BucketKeyEnabled Boolean
AWS:S3:Encryption:KMSMasterKeyID String
AWS:S3:Encryption:ServerSideEncryptionEnabled Boolean
AWS:S3:Encryption:SSEAlgorithm String
  • Configuration collector: AWS S3 ACL Permission Metric Collector
  • Resource collector: AWS S3 Resource Collector
  • Cloud API used: Action: GetBucketAcl
  • Cloud permission: s3:GetBucketAcl
Configuration key Data type
AWS:S3:ACL:AuthnUsersListing Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:AuthnUsersReadACL Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:AuthnUsersWrite Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:AuthnUsersWriteACL Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerFullControl Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerId String
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerListing Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerName String
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerReadACL Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerWrite Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:OwnerWriteACL Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:PublicListing Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:PublicReadACL Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:PublicWrite Boolean
AWS:S3:ACL:PublicWriteACL Boolean

AWS virtual machine instance

Cloud Configuration Governance uses the following items to collect the configuration key for the AWS virtual machine instance configuration keys:

  • Resource collector: AWS VM Data Collector
  • Cloud API used: Action: DescribeInstances and AWS EC2 resource
  • Cloud permission: ec2:DescribeInstances
Configuration key Data type
AWS:EC2:VM:CapacityReservationPreference String
AWS:EC2:VM:CpuOptionsCoreCount Numeric
AWS:EC2:VM:CpuOptionsThreadsPerCore Numeric
AWS:EC2:VM:EbsOptimized Boolean
AWS:EC2:VM:HardwareType String
AWS:EC2:VM:ImageId String
AWS:EC2:VM:InstanceState String
AWS:EC2:VM:KeyName String
AWS:EC2:VM:LaunchTime Date
AWS:EC2:VM:MonitoringState String
AWS:EC2:VM:Platform String
AWS:EC2:VM:PrivateDnsName String
AWS:EC2:VM:PrivateIpAddress String
AWS:EC2:VM:PublicDnsName String
AWS:EC2:VM:PublicIPAddress String
AWS:EC2:VM:SecurityGroups String
AWS:EC2:VM:SubnetId String
AWS:EC2:VM:Tags Map
AWS:EC2:VM:UsageOperation String
AWS:EC2:VM:VpcId String

AWS profile with minimal permissions

JSON
{    "Version": "2012-10-17",    "Statement": [        {            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",            "Effect": "Allow",            "Action": [                "iam:GenerateCredentialReport",                "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",                "ec2:DescribeInstances",                "s3:ListBucketVersions",                "ec2:DescribeRegions",                "s3:ListBucket",                "iam:GetCredentialReport"            ],            "Resource": "*"        }    ]}

Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance

Cloud Configuration Governance uses the following items to collect the Azure virtual machine instance configuration keys:

  • Resource collector: Azure VM Data Collector
  • Cloud API used: Microsoft.ResourceGraph/resources
  • Cloud permission: Microsoft.ResourceGraph/resources
Configuration key Data type
Azure:VM:HardwareType String
Azure:VM:NICID String
Azure:VM:OSDiskCaching String
Azure:VM:OSDiskCreateoption String
Azure:VM:OSDiskDeleteoption String
Azure:VM:OSDiskId String
Azure:VM:OSDiskName String
Azure:VM:OSDiskOSType String
Azure:VM:OSDiskSizeGB String
Azure:VM:OSProfileAllowExtensionOperations Boolean
Azure:VM:OSProfileComputerName String
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationDisablePasswordAuthentication Boolean
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationPatchSettingsAssessmentMode String
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationPatchSettingsPatchMode String
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationProvisionVmAgent Boolean
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationSSHKeyData Map
Azure:VM:OSProfileLinuxConfigurationSSHPath Map
Azure:VM:OSProfileRequireGuestProvisionSignal Boolean
Azure:VM:OSWindowsConfigurationEnableAutomaticUpdates Boolean
Azure:VM:OSWindowsConfigurationPatchSettingsAssessmentMode String
Azure:VM:OSWindowsConfigurationPatchSettingsEnableHotpatching Boolean
Azure:VM:OSWindowsConfigurationPatchSettingsPatchMode String
Azure:VM:OSWindowsConfigurationProvisionVMAgent Boolean
Azure:VM:PowerState String
Azure:VM:ProvisioningState String
Azure:VM:ResourceGroup String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksCaching String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksCreateOption String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksDeleteOption String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksDetachOption String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksDiskIopsReadWrite String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksDiskMBpsReadWrite String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksDiskSizeGb Numeric
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksImage String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksLun Numeric
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksManagedDiskDiskEncryptionSet String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksManagedDiskId String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksManagedDiskResourceGroup String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksManagedDiskStorageAccountType String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksManagedStorageAccountType String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksName String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksToBeDetached Boolean
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksVhd String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileDataDisksWriteAcceleratorEnabled Boolean
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceExactVersion String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceId String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceOffer String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferencePublisher String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceSharedGalleryImageId String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceSku String
Azure:VM:StorageProfileImageReferenceVersion String
Azure:VM:Tags Map
Azure:VM:VMId String
  • Resource collector: Azure VM Data Collector
  • Configuration collector: Azure VM Metric Collector
  • Cloud API used: Microsoft.ResourceGraph/resources
  • Cloud permission: Microsoft.ResourceGraph/resources
Configuration key Data type
Azure:VM:PublicIPAddress String
Azure:VM:PublicIPId String
  • Resource collector: Azure VM Data Collector
  • Configuration collector: Azure VM Monitoring Metric Collector
  • Cloud API used: Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/instanceView
  • Cloud permission: Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/instanceView
Configuration key Data type
Azure:VM:MonitoringState String

Note: Use scope=https://graph.microsoft.com/.default andscope=https://management.azure.com/.default to fetch the oAuth token for the Azure resources.

Azure profile with minimal permissions

JSON
{    "properties": {        "roleName": "CCGAzureMinimalPermission",        "description": "Grants access to scan compute resources from azure subscription",        "assignableScopes": [            "/subscriptions/${subscription_id}"        ],        "permissions": [            {                "actions": [                    "Microsoft.ResourceGraph/resources/read",                    "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/instanceView/read"                ],                "notActions": [],                "dataActions": [],                "notDataActions": []            }        ]    }}

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