Question

A security operations engineer is evaluating tool coverage across a large Google Cloud organization. During a review, they discover that several development teams have spun up projects outside the standard folder hierarchy, and misconfigurations in those projects are not appearing in dashboards. Security Command Center Premium is enabled at the organization level, and findings are forwarded to Google SecOps. The engineer confirms SCC is scanning known projects correctly. What is the MOST likely reason the shadow projects' misconfigurations are missing, and how should coverage be validated?

Accepted Answer

The shadow projects are not attached to the organization resource, so SCC never enumerates them; validate coverage by reconciling Cloud Asset Inventory against SCC's scanned asset list to detect unmanaged or detached projects.

Answer

SecOps is dropping the findings during ingestion; validate by increasing the SecOps data retention tier so older findings are not purged before review.

Answer

SCC Premium only scans projects with Cloud IDS enabled; validate by deploying Cloud IDS endpoints into each shadow project to activate misconfiguration scanning.

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The SCC finding provider role was not granted to the third-party connector; validate by re-issuing the connector service account key for each shadow project.