You are a SOC manager, and your company recently migrated to Google Security Operations (SecOps). As the team grows, you want to monitor all audit logs related to data feeds in Google SecOps. What should you do?
Answer(s): B
The correct approach is to ingest Google SecOps audit logs into Google SecOps SIEM. These audit logs capture all activity related to data feeds and platform operations, allowing centralized monitoring, alerting, and investigation of administrative or feed-related actions within the SecOps environment.
Your company is taking a more proactive approach to security. You want to generate an alert when a binary hash first appears in your environment. What should you do?
Answer(s): C
To generate an alert when a binary hash first appears, you should write a detection rule for file-related events that joins with derived context for hashes in the entity graph and compare against the first_seen_time field. This ensures the rule triggers only when the hash is newly observed in your environment, providing proactive detection of potentially malicious binaries.
You are a SOC manager guiding an implementation of your existing incident response plan (IRP) into Google Security Operations (SecOps). You need to capture time duration data for each of the case stages. You want your solution to minimize maintenance overhead. What should you do?
The correct approach is to configure Case Stages in Google SecOps SOAR settings and use the Change Case Stage action in playbooks. This automatically captures time metrics whenever a case stage changes, aligning with your incident response plan while minimizing maintenance overhead, since timing data is recorded natively without requiring custom jobs or dashboards.
Your organization recently implemented Google Security Operations (SecOps) with Applied Threat Intelligence enabled. You were notified by the networking team about potentially anomalous communications to external domains in the last 30 days. You plan to start your threat hunting by looking at communications to external domains. You are ingesting the following logs into Google SecOps:Firewall logsProxy logsDNS logsDHCP logsWhat should you do? (Choose two.)
Answer(s): B,D
Running a UDM search for low-prevalence domains first seen in the last 30 days helps uncover potentially anomalous or malicious domains, since attackers often use newly registered or rarely seen domains for C2 or exfiltration.Using the Risk Analytics dashboard allows you to identify domains with higher normalized risk scores. Drilling into those entities helps validate whether they are new, rare, or potentially tied to malicious activity.
Your company recently started pulling JSON logs from a third-party system into Google Security Operations (SecOps). You noticed that some fields are missing, and you want to parse them into UDM fields as quickly as possible. What should you do?
The fastest way to handle missing fields in JSON logs is to create parser extensions using the no-code approach in Google SecOps. This allows you to quickly map additional fields into UDM without writing code or waiting on support requests, ensuring rapid parsing and normalization of the third-party logs.
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