Create a service account and set it up for use with Security Command Center client libraries.
Before you begin
To complete this guide, you need the following:
- The Service Account Admin IAM role. For more information about Security Command Center IAM roles, see Access control.
- An existing directory path in which a service account private key can be
stored. This path is in the context of your Cloud Shell environment, like
/home/myuser/mykeys/
. - The activation level of Security Command Center: project or organization level. Depending on your activation level, some of the commands that you use to set up the SDK access are different. To check your activation level, see Check the activation level of Security Command Center.
Accessing Security Command Center
To access Security Command Center programmatically, use Cloud Shell to get the client library and authenticate a service account.
Setting up environment variables
- Go to the Google Cloud console.
Go to the Google Cloud console - Click Activate Cloud Shell.
Set environment variables by running:
Set your organization name:
export ORG_ID=ORGANIZATION_ID
Replace
ORGANIZATION_ID
with the ID of your organization.Set the project ID:
export PROJECT_ID=CLOUD_SCC_ENABLED_PROJECT_ID
Replace
CLOUD_SCC_ENABLED_PROJECT_ID
with the ID of a project in which Security Command Center is active at the project level or for which scans are enabled.Set the custom ID you want to use for a new service account, like
scc-sa
. The service account name must be between 6 and 30 characters, must begin with a letter, and must be all lowercase alphanumeric characters and hyphens:export SERVICE_ACCOUNT=CUSTOM_ID
Replace
CUSTOM_ID
with an ID of your choosing.Set the path in which the service account key should be stored, like
export KEY_LOCATION=/home/$USER/mykeys/$SERVICE_ACCOUNT.json
:export KEY_LOCATION=FULL_PATH # This is used by client libraries to find the key export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$KEY_LOCATION
Setting up a service account
To access Security Command Center programmatically, you need a private key from a service account to be used by the client.
You also need to grant the securitycenter.admin
IAM role
to the service account. Depending on the level of access the service account
needs, you can grant the role at project, folder, or
organization level.
Create a service account that's associated with your project ID:
gcloud iam service-accounts create $SERVICE_ACCOUNT \ --display-name "Service Account for USER" \ --project $PROJECT_ID
Replace
USER
with the username of the person or entity that will use the service account.Create a key to associate with the service account. The key is used for the life of the service account and persistently stored at the path you assign to
KEY_LOCATION
.gcloud iam service-accounts keys create $KEY_LOCATION \ --iam-account $SERVICE_ACCOUNT@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
Grant the service account the
securitycenter.admin
role for either the organization or the project, depending on the activation level of Security Command Center.For organization-level activations:
gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding $ORG_ID \ --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \ --role='roles/securitycenter.admin'
For project-level activations:
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID \ --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \ --role='roles/securitycenter.admin'
Installing client libraries for Security Command Center
Python
To include the Security Command Center Python library as a dependency in your project, follow the process below:
Optional: Before you install the Python library, we recommend using Virtualenv to create an isolated Python environment.
virtualenv onboarding_example source onboarding_example/bin/activate
Install pip to manage the Python library installation.
Run the following commands to install the Python library:
pip install google-cloud-securitycenter
Java
To include the Security Command Center Java library as a dependency in your project, select an artifact from the Maven repository.
Go
To download the Go library, run:
go get cloud.google.com/go/securitycenter/apiv1
Node.js
To install the Node.js library, run:
npm install --save @google-cloud/security-center
What's next
Using the SDK
Review the guides for all the features that Security Command Center supports:
- Listing assets
- Listing security findings
- Creating, modifying, and querying security marks
- Creating and updating security findings
- Creating, updating, and listing finding sources
- Configuring organization settings
SDK References
See the complete SDK references: