REST Resource: organizations.sources.findings

Resource: Finding

Security Command Center finding.

A finding is a record of assessment data like security, risk, health, or privacy, that is ingested into Security Command Center for presentation, notification, analysis, policy testing, and enforcement. For example, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an App Engine application is a finding.

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "parent": string,
  "resourceName": string,
  "state": enum (State),
  "category": string,
  "externalUri": string,
  "sourceProperties": {
    string: value,
    ...
  },
  "securityMarks": {
    object (SecurityMarks)
  },
  "eventTime": string,
  "createTime": string,
  "severity": enum (Severity)
}
Fields
name

string

The relative resource name of this finding. See: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names#relative_resource_name Example: "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{findingId}"
parent

string

The relative resource name of the source the finding belongs to. See: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names#relative_resource_name This field is immutable after creation time. For example: "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}"
resourceName

string

For findings on Google Cloud resources, the full resource name of the Google Cloud resource this finding is for. See: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names#full_resource_name When the finding is for a non-Google Cloud resource, the resourceName can be a customer or partner defined string. This field is immutable after creation time.
state

enum (State)

The state of the finding.
category

string

The additional taxonomy group within findings from a given source. This field is immutable after creation time. Example: "XSS_FLASH_INJECTION"
externalUri

string

The URI that, if available, points to a web page outside of Security Command Center where additional information about the finding can be found. This field is guaranteed to be either empty or a well formed URL.
sourceProperties

map (key: string, value: value (Value format))

Source specific properties. These properties are managed by the source that writes the finding. The key names in the sourceProperties map must be between 1 and 255 characters, and must start with a letter and contain alphanumeric characters or underscores only.

An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.
securityMarks

object (SecurityMarks)

Output only. User specified security marks. These marks are entirely managed by the user and come from the SecurityMarks resource that belongs to the finding.
eventTime

string (Timestamp format)

The time at which the event took place, or when an update to the finding occurred. For example, if the finding represents an open firewall it would capture the time the detector believes the firewall became open. The accuracy is determined by the detector. If the finding were to be resolved afterward, this time would reflect when the finding was resolved.

A timestamp in RFC3339 UTC "Zulu" format, with nanosecond resolution and up to nine fractional digits. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z" and "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z".
createTime

string (Timestamp format)

The time at which the finding was created in Security Command Center.

A timestamp in RFC3339 UTC "Zulu" format, with nanosecond resolution and up to nine fractional digits. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z" and "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z".
severity

enum (Severity)

The severity of the finding. This field is managed by the source that writes the finding.

State

The state of the finding.

Enums
STATE_UNSPECIFIED Unspecified state.
ACTIVE The finding requires attention and has not been addressed yet.
INACTIVE The finding has been fixed, triaged as a non-issue or otherwise addressed and is no longer active.

SecurityMarks

User specified security marks that are attached to the parent Security Command Center resource. Security marks are scoped within a Security Command Center organization -- they can be modified and viewed by all users who have proper permissions on the organization.

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "marks": {
    string: string,
    ...
  }
}
Fields
name

string

The relative resource name of the SecurityMarks. See: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names#relative_resource_name Examples: "organizations/{organization_id}/assets/{asset_id}/securityMarks" "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{findingId}/securityMarks".
marks

map (key: string, value: string)

Mutable user specified security marks belonging to the parent resource. Constraints are as follows:

  • Keys and values are treated as case insensitive
  • Keys must be between 1 - 256 characters (inclusive)
  • Keys must be letters, numbers, underscores, or dashes
  • Values have leading and trailing whitespace trimmed, remaining characters must be between 1 - 4096 characters (inclusive)

An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.

Severity

The severity of the finding.

Enums
SEVERITY_UNSPECIFIED This value is used for findings when a source doesn't write a severity value.
CRITICAL

Vulnerability: A critical vulnerability is easily discoverable by an external actor, exploitable, and results in the direct ability to execute arbitrary code, exfiltrate data, and otherwise gain additional access and privileges to cloud resources and workloads. Examples include publicly accessible unprotected user data, public SSH access with weak or no passwords, etc.

Threat: Indicates a threat that is able to access, modify, or delete data or execute unauthorized code within existing resources.
HIGH

Vulnerability: A high risk vulnerability can be easily discovered and exploited in combination with other vulnerabilities in order to gain direct access and the ability to execute arbitrary code, exfiltrate data, and otherwise gain additional access and privileges to cloud resources and workloads. An example is a database with weak or no passwords that is only accessible internally. This database could easily be compromised by an actor that had access to the internal network.

Threat: Indicates a threat that is able to create new computational resources in an environment but not able to access data or execute code in existing resources.
MEDIUM

Vulnerability: A medium risk vulnerability could be used by an actor to gain access to resources or privileges that enable them to eventually (through multiple steps or a complex exploit) gain access and the ability to execute arbitrary code or exfiltrate data. An example is a service account with access to more projects than it should have. If an actor gains access to the service account, they could potentially use that access to manipulate a project the service account was not intended to.

Threat: Indicates a threat that is able to cause operational impact but may not access data or execute unauthorized code.
LOW

Vulnerability: A low risk vulnerability hampers a security organization's ability to detect vulnerabilities or active threats in their deployment, or prevents the root cause investigation of security issues. An example is monitoring and logs being disabled for resource configurations and access.

Threat: Indicates a threat that has obtained minimal access to an environment but is not able to access data, execute code, or create resources.

Methods

create

 Creates a finding.

group

 Filters an organization or source's findings and groups them by their specified properties.

list

 Lists an organization or source's findings.

patch

 Creates or updates a finding.

setState

 Updates the state of a finding.

updateSecurityMarks

 Updates security marks.