Join us for a deep dive into the practical application of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to dramatically accelerate your threat intelligence operationalization efforts within Google SecOps.
This session, led by expert Jay Aware - Google Cloud Security Customer Engineer, demonstrates a complete, end-to-end workflow for transforming open-source FBI FLASH reports into production-ready SecOps detection rules using Terraform. Learn how to treat security detections as scalable software artifacts to reduce operationalization time from days to just hours.
Key Takeaways & Discussion Flow
This webinar provided a complete walkthrough, from threat report analysis to automated rule deployment. Here are the key segments and discussion points:
- The "Why" of Detection as Code (8:37): Understand the critical need to build effective detection rules quickly and at scale using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation. This section also defines OSINT (Open Source Intelligence).
- Real-World Case Study (11:03): Dive into the context of the UNC6040/UNC6395 Salesforce compromise and how publicly released intelligence (like FBI FLASH Reports) containing IOCs/TTPs can be immediately weaponized for defense.
- SecOps Tooling Deep Dive (14:36): Learn how to leverage Reference Lists (reusable lookup tables for IOCs) and write powerful YARA-L Detection Rules in Google SecOps.
- IaC Implementation with Terraform (18:14): See strategies for defining and deploying SecOps resources, discussing the nuances of using IaC for dynamic and static configurations.
- Live Demo: Rapid Deployment (19:27): Watch the complete end-to-end workflow—reviewing the threat report, codifying rules, running the terraform apply command, and confirming deployment in the SecOps environment.
- Governance & Cleanup (28:49): Best practices for managing deployed rules, including how to use terraform destroy for cleanup and the importance of using IaC as the single source of truth.
- In-Depth Q&A on Governance (33:58): A crucial discussion on maintaining IaC state vs. manual UI changes, restricting permissions via GCP IAM, and comparing stateful (Terraform) vs. stateless (Python/Go) deployment methods for security artifacts.
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