Cloud Security Posture Management Playbooks v2.1.1

Overview

This content pack helps fix common cloud misconfigurations automatically with analyst approval or performs auto-remediation without approval, optionally notifying stakeholders. It also includes two versatile, cloud-agnostic playbooks for creating tickets and sending notifications via ServiceNow, Jira, Email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams.

Key Use Cases

• Automatically remediate AWS misconfigurations with optional analyst approval.
• Automatically remediate AWS, Azure, and GCP public access misconfigurations with minimal or no manual intervention.
• Create or update issue tickets in Jira or ServiceNow.
• Notify teams through Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email.

Included Playbooks

AWS Remediation Playbooks

AWS EC2 Instance Misconfiguration Remediation

• Ensures EC2 instances are configured with Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2).
• Offers analyst-in-the-loop or fully automated remediation.
• Integrates with AWS and Cortex Core IR.

AWS IAM Password Policy Remediation

• Remediates 9 different insecure IAM password policy configurations, such as:

  • Password reuse
  • Minimum password length
  • Lack of complexity requirements (uppercase, symbols, etc.)
  • No expiration policy

• Supports both automated and analyst approval flows.

AWS S3 Bucket Public Access Remediation

• Detects and remediates publicly accessible S3 buckets (read or write access).
• Ensures S3 compliance with cloud security policies.

AWS Public Access Misconfiguration - Auto-remediate

• Automatically disables public access settings for RDS Database instances, EBS Snapshots and S3 buckets.
• Option to notify stakeholders about the remediation via Email, Slack or MS Teams.
  • Set enableNotifications to ‘yes’ and configure inputs for the Notify Stakeholders playbook to send issue, asset and remediation details.

Azure Remediation Playbooks

Azure Public Access Misconfiguration - Auto-remediate

• Automatically remediates the misconfiguration issues for publicly accessible Azure blob containers, overly permissive Azure VM Disks or default Allow network access to Azure Storage Accounts.
• Option to notify stakeholders about the remediation via Email, Slack or MS Teams.
  • Set enableNotifications to ‘yes’ and configure inputs for the Notify Stakeholders playbook to send issue, asset and remediation details.

GCP Remediation Playbooks

GCP Public Access Misconfiguration - Auto-remediate

• Automatically secure the publicly exposed GCP bucket by updating policies to block public access immediately.
• Option to notify stakeholders about the remediation via Email, Slack or MS Teams.
  • Set enableNotifications to ‘yes’ and configure inputs for the Notify Stakeholders playbook to send issue, asset and remediation details.

All remediation playbooks leverage:

• AWS integrations
• Sub-playbooks for ticket creation and/or notification
• Context-aware command execution

Generic Utility Playbook

Create Ticket and Notify

• Creates or updates incident tickets using Jira V3 or ServiceNow v2.
• Notifies stakeholders via Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email.
• Customizable behavior: ticket-only, notification-only, or both.
• Detects available integrations and adapts accordingly.

Notify Stakeholders

• This is a sub-playbook that is used in the Public Access Misconfiguration remediation playbooks for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• It is used to send issue and asset details along with the remediation action taken, in a well formatted notification message via Email, Slack or MS Teams, depending on the configured and enabled integrations.
• Configure recipients for email, slack or MS Teams notification in the Playbook Triggered header of this playbook
• If no inputs are pre-configured and enableNotifications is set to ‘yes’ in the remediation playbook, execution will pause to request at least one recipient.

Dependencies

This pack uses the following integrations:

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Cortex Core - IR
• Jira V3
• ServiceNow v2
• Microsoft Teams
• SlackV3
• mail-sender

Future Roadmap

• Additional coverage for High/Critical severity AWS, Azure, and GCP misconfiguration issues

Requirements

• Active integrations for AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Microsoft Teams (depending on use)
• Access to cloud account APIs with sufficient permissions for remediation

Pack Contributors

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• Shashi Testman
• Ann Testman
• Marc Cyr
• Anmol Baansal

Contributions are welcome and appreciated. For more info, visit our Contribution Guide.