The rest of this tutorial will be performed in a terminal.

1. Open a Cloud Shell Console, or a shell with the gcloud CLI installed.

2. Clone this repository locally and make it the current working folder.

   $ git clone https://github.com/shadanan/gcp-scc-finding-notification-log.git
   $ cd gcp-scc-finding-notification-log

3. In the shell that we prepared at the beginning, set the org and project ID. The selected project is where the Cloud Function will execute form.

   $ export ORG_ID=<your org id>
   $ export PROJECT_ID=<your project id>
   $ gcloud config set project $PROJECT_ID

Cloud Pub/Sub is a real-time messaging service that enables messages to be sent and received between independent applications. A publisher creates a message and publishes it to a feed of messages called a topic. A subscriber receives these messages by way of a subscription. In our case, we'll have a Cloud Function that sends an email when High and Critical severity notifications are published to the topic.

1. Create the topic where all the findings will be published.

   $ gcloud pubsub topics create scc-findings-topic
   $ export TOPIC=projects/$PROJECT_ID/topics/scc-findings-topic

2. Configure SCC to publish notifications to our topic.

   $ gcloud scc notifications create scc-findings-notify \
     --organization $ORG_ID --pubsub-topic $TOPIC

1. Deploy the scc-finding-notification-log cloud function. If you have not enabled Cloud Build API, then this command may fail. Follow the link in the error message to enable it and then try again.

   $ gcloud functions deploy scc-finding-notification-log \
     --entry-point=process_notification \
     --source=cf --trigger-topic=scc-findings-topic --runtime=python39

1. In Security Command Center, manually deactivate and reactivate a high severity finding in order to trigger the cloud function. Ensure Show Only Active Findings is off so that the findings don't disappear after you deactivate one.

   

2. Check the logs for the cloud function. There should be two log entries per notification. One displaying the base64 encoded payload, and the second displaying the decoded finding.