Tune your cloud security with conditional detector rules in Oracle Cloud Guard

Oracle Cloud Guard provides a unified view of the cloud security posture across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The included service is available to all paid OCI tenants. As the tenant owner, you’re responsible for managing security configurations, monitoring changes, and remediating any security findings. Cloud Guard helps by examining resources in your OCI tenancy, detecting security weaknesses related to configuration and administrative activity, and enabling automated remediation.

Understanding your cloud security posture

To enable Cloud Guard, you define the in-scope targets and configure the service’s detectors and responders to find the types of issues that you’re concerned about and to respond according to your own policies within your OCI instance. You can start with predefined default configurations, but you might find that the out-of-the-box detector policies generate findings that you determine to be false positives.

For example, the service has built-in detector rules to detect whether an instance is publicly accessible or has a public IP address. In many cases, these security findings are important. But if you have an environment with a Compute instance that’s intended to be publicly accessible, you likely view these findings as false positives for that instance. So, the ability to customize detector rules to match your own requirements is highly valuable.

In cases where you want a detector rule to apply to some resources but not others, one powerful way to address those requirements is to configure detector rule conditions. We recently published a tutorial that walks you through configuring conditional detector rules for Cloud Guard. When you understand how to use conditions, you can apply the approach to most types of detector rules. This capability allows for more flexibility in managing your cloud security posture.

Try for yourself

For more information and to get started, access our tutorial on configuring Cloud Guard detector rules.

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To learn more, see the following resources:

• Tutorial: Configure Oracle Cloud Guard detector rules to detect problems based on conditions
• Oracle Cloud Guard website
• Oracle Cloud Guard documentation