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GCP Pub/Sub Topic Creation
editGCP Pub/Sub Topic Creation
editIdentifies the creation of a topic in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In GCP, the publisher-subscriber relationship (Pub/Sub) is an asynchronous messaging service that decouples event-producing and event-processing services. A topic is used to forward messages from publishers to subscribers.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-gcp*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: None (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- GCP
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Log Auditing
Version: 8
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guide
editRule query
editevent.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:google.pubsub.v*.Publisher.CreateTopic and event.outcome:success
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
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Technique:
- Name: Data from Cloud Storage Object
- ID: T1530
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1530/