Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for Google Cloud Identity
Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for Google Cloud Identity
ISO 27001 compliance is essential for ensuring the security and management of sensitive information across your organization. Pulumi can assist you in making your Google Cloud infrastructure ISO 27001 compliant. Pulumi can help you identify existing cloud resources that are not in compliance, and it can also enforce compliance policies proactively before infrastructure is deployed. Get started with Pulumi to use these compliance tools or speak with a Solutions Architect to get an expert consultation.
What is ISO 27001 Compliance?
ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS). It helps organizations protect sensitive data by providing a risk-based approach, ensuring that security measures are proportionate to the risks faced. ISO 27001 is based around the following 3 pillars: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. By achieving ISO 27001 certification, organizations demonstrate their commitment to robust information security practices and regulatory compliance.
Key Aspects of ISO 27001 Compliance
- Risk Management: ISO 27001 requires organizations to assess risks related to their information assets and implement controls to mitigate these risks.
- Security Controls: The standard includes a comprehensive set of security controls (outlined in Annex A) that cover areas like access control, cryptography, physical security, and incident management.
- ISMS Implementation: Organizations must establish an ISMS, which is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. This involves setting policies, procedures, and controls.
- Continuous Improvement: ISO 27001 emphasizes the importance of continually monitoring, reviewing, and improving the ISMS to adapt to changing security risks and business needs.
- Compliance and Certification: Organizations can seek certification to ISO 27001 by undergoing an external audit conducted by a certification body. Certification demonstrates that an organization has implemented best practices for information security management.
- Legal and Regulatory Requirements: ISO 27001 helps organizations comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations related to information security.
Pulumi Insights
Use Pulumi Insights to gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure's configuration to assess ISO 27001 compliance. Pulumi Insights is Intelligent Cloud Management. It helps you gain security, compliance, and cost insights into the entirety of your organization's cloud assets and automatically remediate issues.
Pulumi Copilot
Use Pulumi Copilot to assist configuring your infrastructure to make it compliance ready. You can tap into the Pulumi Copilot's deep understanding of your organization's context to gain visibility into the configuration of resources and assess their compliance.
Compliance Ready Policies
With comprehensive coverage of Google Cloud, Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies provide an enhanced level of control and governance over your cloud resources. Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies empower you to enforce best practices, security standards, cost controls, and compliance requirements seamlessly within your infrastructure-as-code workflows.
What is Google Cloud Identity?
Google Cloud Identity is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform that offers the identity services and endpoint administration that are available in Google Workspace as a stand-alone product. It provides features like single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and device management, helping organizations secure user identities and manage access to resources across their entire ecosystem.
What controls can I put in place to evaluate Google Cloud Identity resources?
- Cloud Identity roles should not allow full administrative privileges with wildcard actions (*)
- Cloud Identity users should not have custom roles or policies attached that grant excessive permissions
- Cloud Identity users' credentials should be rotated every 90 days or less
- Cloud Identity tenant administrator accounts should not have direct access keys
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be enabled for all Cloud Identity users with access to the Google Cloud Console
- Hardware MFA should be enabled for super admin accounts
- Password policies for Cloud Identity users should enforce strong configurations, including complexity requirements
- Unused Cloud Identity user credentials should be removed after a specified period
- MFA should be enabled for all Cloud Identity users with administrative access
- Password policies for Cloud Identity users should have strong configurations
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy requires at least one uppercase letter
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy requires at least one lowercase letter
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy requires at least one symbol
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy requires at least one number
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy requires a minimum password length of 14 or greater
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy prevents password reuse
- Ensure Cloud Identity password policy expires passwords within 90 days or less
- Ensure a support role has been created for incident management and Google Cloud support
- MFA should be enabled for all Cloud Identity users
- Cloud Identity custom roles created should not allow wildcard actions
- Cloud Identity user credentials that have been unused for 45 days or more should be removed
- Cloud Identity roles should be labeled for governance
- Cloud Identity users should be labeled for better access control and auditing
- Expired SSL/TLS certificates managed in Cloud Identity should be removed
- Cloud Identity identities should not have excessive permissions like full Cloud Shell access
- Cloud Identity Access Reviews and Conditional Access policies should be enabled for security monitoring
Speak to a Solutions Architect to implement policy as code to manage Cloud Identity resources for ISO 27001 compliance.
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