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    Permissions and Roles for GCP Account on Prisma Cloud

    Learn about the Service account and APIs that enable Prisma Cloud to ingest, analyze, and monitor the resources deployed within a GCP project or organization.
    In order to analyze and monitor your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account, Prisma Cloud requires access to specific APIs and a service account which is an authorized identity that enables authentication between Prisma Cloud and GCP. A combination of custom, predefined and primitive roles grant the service account the permissions it needs to complete specific actions on the resources in your GCP project or organization. Depending on your cloud protection needs, the service account requires the following roles for read or read-write access:
    • Viewer—Primitive role on GCP.
    • Prisma Cloud Viewer— Custom role. Prisma Cloud needs this custom role to grant cloud storage bucket permission to read storage bucket metadata and update bucket IAM policies. This role requires storage.buckets.get to retrieve your list of storage buckets, and storage.buckets.getIampolicy to retrieve the IAM policy for the specified bucket.
    • Compute Security Admin—Predefined role on GCP. An optional privilege that is required only if you want to enable auto-remediation.
    • Organization Role Viewer—Predefined role on GCP. This role is required for onboarding a GCP Organization.
    • Dataflow Admin—Predefined role on GCP. An optional privilege that is required for dataflow log compression using the Dataflow service. See Flow Log Compression on GCP for details.
    • Folder Viewer—Predefined role on GCP. An optional privilege that is required only if you are onboarding Folders in the GCP resource hierarchy.
    Prisma Cloud can ingest data from several GCP APIs. In the GCP project where you create the service account, you must enable the Stackdriver Logging API (logging.googleapis.com) to monitor audit logs, and any other APIs for which you want Prisma Cloud to monitor resources. When you use the Terraform template that Prisma Cloud provides to automate the onboarding of your GCP project or organization, the required permissions are automatically enabled for you.
    The following table lists the APIs and associated granular permissions if you want to create a custom role to onboard your GCP account. When the APIs are enabled and the service account has the correct set of roles and associated permissions, Prisma Cloud can retrieve data about your GCP resources and identify potential security risks and compliance issues across your cloud accounts.To create a custom role for the service account, see Create a Service Account With a Custom Role for GCP before you continue to Add Your GCP Project to Prisma Cloud or Add Your GCP Organization to Prisma Cloud
    Use
    gcloud services list
     to verify the APIs that you have enabled.
    Service Name
    Description
    Role Name
    Permissions
    App Engine API
    appengine.googlecloudapis.com
    Allows you to access App Engine, which is a fully managed serverless platform on GCP.
    App Engine Viewer
    appengine.applications.get
    BigQuery API
    bigquery-json.googleapis.com
    Allows you to create, manage, share, and query data.
    BigQuery Metadata Viewer
    bigquery.datasets.get
    bigquery.tables.get
    bigquery.tables.list
    Cloud Functions
    cloudfunctions.googleapis.com
    Cloud Functions is Google Cloud’s event-driven serverless compute platform
    Cloud Functions Viewer
    cloudfunctions.functions.getIamPolicy
    cloudfunctions.functions.list
    cloudfunctions.locations.list
    Cloud DataFlow API
    dataflow.googleapi.com
    Manages Google Cloud Dataflow projects.
    Dataflow Admin
    resourcemanager.projects.get
    storage.buckets.get
    storage.objects.create
    storage.objects.get
    storage.objects.list
    See Flow Log Compression on GCP
    Cloud DNS API
    dns.googleapis.com
    Cloud DNS translates requests for domain names into IP addresses and manages and publishes DNS zones and records.
    DNS Reader
    dns.dnsKeys.list
    dns.managedZones.get
    dns.managedZones.list
    Cloud Resource Manager API
    cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
    Creates, reads, and updates metadata for Google Cloud Platform resource containers.
    Role Viewer
    resourcemanager.projects.getIamPolicy
    Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API
    cloudkms.googleapis.com
    Google Cloud KMS allows customers to manage encryption keys and perform cryptographic operations with those keys.
    Custom Role
    cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list
    cloudkms.keyRings.list
    Cloud SQL Admin API
    sqladmin.googleapis.com
    API for Cloud SQL database instance management.
    Custom Role
    cloudsql.instances.list
    Compute Engine API
    compute.googleapis.com
    Creates and runs virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform.
    Compute Network Viewer
    compute.backendServices.list
    compute.disks.list
    compute.firewalls.list
    compute.forwardingRules.list
    compute.globalForwardingRules.list
    compute.instanceGroups.get
    compute.instances.list
    compute.networks.list
    compute.projects.get
    compute.regionBackendServices.list
    compute.sslPolicies.get
    compute.sslPolicies.list
    compute.subnetworks.list
    compute.targetHttpProxies.list
    compute.targetHttpsProxies.list
    compute.targetPools.list
    compute.urlMaps.list
    Google API Key
    apikeys.googleapis.com
    Google lets you manage your project's API Keys.
    This service is in Alpha.
    serviceusage.apiKeys.list
    Google Cloud Storage API
    storage-component.googleapis.com
    Cloud Storage is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google’s infrastructure.
    Custom Role
    storage.buckets.get
    storage.buckets.getIamPolicy
    storage.buckets.list
    Google Recommendations API
    recommender.googleapis.com
    GCP IAM Recommender
    Google Recommender provides usage recommendations for Google Cloud resources. Recommenders are specific to a single Google Cloud product and resource type.
    IAM Recommender Viewer
    recommender.iamPolicyRecommendations.list
    Identity and Access Management (IAM) API 
    iam.googleapis.com
    Manages identity and access control for GCP resources, including the creation of service accounts, which you can use to authenticate to Google and make API calls.
    Role Viewer
    iam.roles.get
    iam.roles.list
    iam.serviceAccountKeys.list
    iam.serviceAccounts.list
    Kubernetes Engine API
    container.googleapis.com
    Builds and manages container-based applications, powered by the open source Kubernetes technology.
    Kubernetes Engine Cluster Viewer
    container.clusters.get
    container.clusters.list
    Stackdriver Monitoring API
    monitoring.googleapis.com
    Manages your Stackdriver Monitoring data and configurations.
    Monitoring Viewer
    monitoring.alertPolicies.list
    monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
    redis.instances.list
    Stackdriver Logging API
    logging.googleapis.com
    Writes log entries and manages your Logging configuration.
    Logging Admin
    logging.logEntries.list
    logging.logMetrics.list
    logging.sinks.list
    GCP Organization - Additional permissions required to onboard
    Organization Role Viewer
    The Organization Role Viewer is required for onboarding a GCP Organization. If you only provide the individual permissions listed below, the permissions set is not sufficient. 
    resourcemanager.organizations.get
    resourcemanager.projects.list
    resourcemanager.organizations.getIamPolicy

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