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Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification

Playbook Overview

The Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification playbook automatically collects statistics on the number of assets, number of protected assets, number of unprotected assets, and protection rate in the workspace where the playbook is located at 09:00 every Monday and notifies users of the statistics.

You need to enable this playbook manually.

Prerequisites

  • Your SecMaster professional edition is available.
  • You have enabled asset subscription in the workspace where the Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification playbook is located. For details, see Configuring the Asset Subscription.
  • You have created and subscribed to a topic to receive notifications from SecMaster. For details, see Step 1: Create and Subscribe to a Topic.
  • SecMaster has obtained the SMN FullAccess permission, which specifies all permissions of SMN.
    Table 1 Permission description

    Permission

    Description

    Principal

    Usage

    SMN FullAccess

    All permissions for SMN.

    SecMaster_Agency

    SecMaster uses SMN to send playbook execution notifications.

    Perform the following steps to check whether SecMaster has obtained the SMN FullAccess permission: If the permission is not allocated, allocate it to SecMaster by referring to Authorizing SecMaster.

    1. Log in to the SecMaster console as an administrator.
    2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Management & Governance > Identity and Access Management.
    3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Agencies. On the Agencies page, click SecMaster_Agency and then click the Permissions tab to view all authorization records of SecMaster_Agency.
    Figure 1 Viewing agency authorization records

Notes and Constraints

This playbook can collect statistics only on cloud assets. Only cloud assets support asset subscription.

Cloud assets: assets on our cloud (Huawei Cloud), for example, Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic IP (EIP), and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Step 1: Create and Subscribe to a Topic

To receive notifications generated by the Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification playbook, you need to use Simple Message Notification (SMN) to create a SecMaster topic and subscribe to the topic.
  1. Log in to the SecMaster console.
  2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and choose Management & Governance > Simple Message Notification.
  3. Create a topic.
    1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Topic Management > Topics. In the upper right corner of the displayed page, click Create Topic.
      Figure 2 Create Topic
    2. In the Create Topic dialog box displayed, configure topic information and click OK.
      • Topic Name: Set it to SecMaster-Notification.
      • Display Name: SecMaster notification topic is recommended.
      • Retain default values for other parameters.

      Topic Name must be set to SecMaster-Notification, or playbooks may fail to be executed.

  4. Add a subscription.
    1. On the Topics page, locate the row that contains the SecMaster-Notification topic and click Add Subscription in the Operation column.
    2. On the displayed Add Subscription slide-out panel, configure subscription information and click OK.
      • Protocol: Select a notification method based on your needs. Email is used as an example.
      • Endpoint: Enter the email address of the subscription endpoint, for example, username@example.com.
  5. Confirm the subscription.

    After a subscription is added, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address set in 4. Click the subscription confirmation link in the email. A page for a successful subscription will be displayed.

Step 2: Configure and Enable the Playbook

In SecMaster, the initial version (V1) of the Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification workflow is enabled by default. You do not need to manually enable it. The initial version (V1) of the Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification playbook is also activated by default. To use it, you only need to enable it.
  1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Security Orchestration > Playbooks.
  2. On the Playbooks tab, locate the row that contains the Asset Protection Status Statistics Notification playbook and click Enable in the Operation column.
  3. In the dialog box displayed, select the initial playbook version v1 and click OK.

Implementation Effect

You can receive notifications about asset protection status statistics. The following is an example:

Figure 3 Asset protection status statistics notification
Parent topic: Playbook Overview