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GCP Firewall Rule Deletionedit

Identifies when a firewall rule is deleted in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) firewall rules can be configured to allow or deny connections to or from virtual machine (VM) instances. An adversary may delete a firewall rule in order to weaken their target’s security controls.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • GCP
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Configuration Audit

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positivesedit

Firewall rules may be deleted by system administrators. Verify that the firewall configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.

Investigation guideedit

The GCP Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule queryedit

event.dataset:googlecloud.audit and
event.action:v*.compute.firewalls.delete

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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