Detect GCP Cloud SQL Configuration Changes

Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity Real-Time Threat Monitoring and Analysis (RTMA) engine has detected Cloud SQL configuration changes made in your GCP account.
Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server database engines, that enables you to create, maintain, manage, and administer your relational databases on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
As a security best practice, you need to be aware of all configuration changes made at the Cloud SQL service level, changes such as creating or updating SQL database instances.
Cloud SQL writes audit logs to help you find who configured your SQL database resources, where and when. Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity RTMA uses the audit information collected by Google Cloud to process and send notifications about the configurations changes performed at the Cloud SQL level.
The activity detected by the Conformity RTMA feature could be, for example, a user action initiated through the Google Cloud Console or an API request initiated programmatically using gcloud CLI, that triggers any of the SQL operational events listed below:

• "cloudsql.instances.create" - Creates a new SQL database instance.
• "cloudsql.instances.update" - Updates settings of a Cloud SQL database instance by merging the request with the current configuration.
• "cloudsql.instances.failover" - Performs a manual failover of a primary instance to a standby instance, which becomes the primary instance, then reroutes the clients to the new primary instance.
• "cloudsql.instances.resetSslConfig" - Deletes all client certificates and generates a new SSL certificate for the SQL database instance.

To maintain service availability, protect against unauthorized access, and prevent unexpected charges on your GCP bill, Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity strongly recommends that you avoid as much as possible to provide GCP users (except database administrators) the permission to perform Cloud SQL configuration changes within your GCP account.
The communication channels for sending RTMA notifications can be quickly configured in your Conformity account. The list of supported communication channels that you can use to receive notification alerts for Cloud SQL configuration changes are SMS, Email, Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and Zendesk.

This rule resolution is part of the Conformity solution.