Question

Your organization has just onboarded a tier-1 SOC team into Google SecOps. These analysts must triage alerts, run UDM searches, and add comments to cases, but company policy forbids them from modifying detection rules, altering data ingestion settings, or exporting bulk log data. A junior engineer proposes granting the team the 'Chronicle API Admin' IAM role to ensure they have enough access to work efficiently. As the security operations engineer reviewing this request, what is the most appropriate action?

Accepted Answer

Reject the request and instead assign a role scoped to viewer/editor privileges for cases and search (e.g., Chronicle Viewer plus case-management permissions), excluding rule and ingestion administration.

Answer

Approve the Chronicle API Admin role since it guarantees the analysts will never be blocked by missing permissions during an incident.

Answer

Grant the Chronicle API Admin role temporarily and rely on audit logs to detect any policy violations after they occur.

Answer

Assign the Owner role at the Google Cloud project level so the analysts can access SecOps along with any other tools they might need later.