Real-time Notification of Critical Organization and Management Operations

Playbook Overview

This built-in playbook can notify you of key O&M operations by email in real time.

The Real-time notification of critical Organization and Management operations playbook has matched the Real-time notification of critical Organization and Management operations workflow. This workflow uses Simple Message Notification (SMN) to send notifications. So you need to create and subscribe to a notification topic in SMN.

Prerequisites

• You have enabled access to CTS logs on the Data Integration page under Settings in the current workspace. For details, see Data Integration.
  Figure 1 Access to CTS logs
  
• The corresponding O&M defense model has been enabled. For details, see Step 2: Enable the Alert Model.
• SecMaster has obtained the SMN FullAccess permission, which specifies all permissions of SMN.

  Table 1 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 console as the 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 2 Viewing Agency Authorization Records
  

Step 1: Create and Subscribe to a Topic

Step 2: Enable the Alert Model

Before using the Real-time notification of critical Organization and Management operations playbook, you need to enable some alert models, including the ones for O&M - Attaching NICs, O&M - Creating VPC peering connections, and O&M- Binding EIPs to resources.

1. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Workspaces > Management. In the workspace list, click the name of the target workspace.
   Figure 4 Workspace management page
   
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Threats > Intelligent Modeling, and select the Model Templates tab.
   Figure 5 Model Templates tab
   
4. In the model template list, click Details in the Operation column of the target model template. The template details page is displayed on the right.
5. On the details page, click Create Model in the lower right corner. The page for creating an alert model is displayed.
6. On the Create Threat Model page, configure basic information about the model.
   • Pipeline Name: Select an execution pipeline for the alert model.

     Table 2 Available pipelines

     Alert Template	Execution Pipeline
     O&M - Attaching a NIC	sec-cts-audit
     O&M - Creating a VPC peering connection
     O&M - Binding EIPs to resources

   • Retain default values for other parameters.
7. After the setting is complete, click Next in the lower right corner of the page. The page for setting the model logic is displayed.
8. Set the model logic. You are advised to retain the default settings.
9. Complete all settings and click Next in the lower right corner of the page.
10. Review all settings and click OK in the lower right corner of the page.
11. Repeat 4 to 10 to create alert models with other templates.
12. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Threats > Intelligent Modeling.
    Figure 6 Available Models
    
13. To enable models in batches, select all models you want to enable and click Enable in the upper left corner of the list.

    If the model status changes to Enable, the model is successfully started.

Step 3: Configure and Enable the Playbook

Implementation Effect

When a key O&M operation is performed, this playbook is triggered. The playbook will send an email notification as configured. The following is an example.

Figure 8 Operation notifications