Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form

The Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form displays detailed information about the policy such as cloud provider, resource type, policy type, and policy violation reporting settings.

Field Description Policy name Name that uniquely identifies the policy. Description Brief description of the policy.

Resource type

Define the resource type for which you want to create the policy.

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Cloud provider

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Cloud that hosts the resources to be scanned.

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Resource type

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Cloud resource type to be scanned through the policy. If the required resource type is not available, you can create a resource type. For more information, see Create a resource collector.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>## Policy condition

Define the policy type and the non-compliant resource configuration.

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Type

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Cloud Configuration Governance supports the following types:- Condition builder: The no-code method for creating policies. - Integration Hub Flow: The low-code method for creating policies. - Script: The code-based method for creating policies.

Select the show available keys icon ([Omitted image “show-available-keys-icon.png”] Alt text: Show available keys icon.) to view the list of all available configuration keys for the selected resource type. You can use any of the keys in the policy.

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Condition

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Conditions for reporting the non-compliant cloud resource configuration. Always specify the key and value in a pair. Use the OR operator and the AND operator to perform logical operations in the policy condition.

Syntax

“‘ Key is <key_name> <data_type> Value <condition> <value>

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Key is AWS:IAM:User:PasswordEnabled Boolean Value is true

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This field appears only when Condition Builder is selected from the Type field.

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Configuration key

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Configuration keys for the policy.

This field appears only when Integration Hub Flow is selected from the Type field.

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Integration flow

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The appropriate Integration Hub flow.

This field appears only when Integration Hub Flow is selected from the Type field.

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Condition script

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Script that implements the policy conditions to identify and report the policy violations. Cloud Configuration Governance contains several scriptable objects and variables for use in the policy scripts. For more information see, Scripting reference.

You can create script includes to externalize the decision making and reuse the code across different scripts. For more information on creating the script includes, see Script includes.

Note: If you create a custom audit result record through the script, then the Audit Violation Reporting configuration defined in the policy doesn’t take effect.

This field appears only when Script is selected from the Type field.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>## Audit violation reporting

Define how Cloud Configuration Governance reports the policy violation.

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Report violation as

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Violation definition to be included in the audit violation report. Cloud Configuration Governance uses the violation definition to report the policy non-compliances.If an appropriate violation definition is not available, you can create one as follows:

1. Select the lookup using list icon ([Omitted image “lookup-using-list.png”] Alt text: Lookup using list icon.).

2. Select New.

3. Enter a name that uniquely identifies the violation definition.

Cloud Configuration Governance includes the name of the violation definition in the audit issue report.

1. Select the default severity for the violation definition.

2. (Optional) Enter a brief description of the violation.

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Severity

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Severity level of the violation. If you do not select the severity level in the policy, Cloud Configuration Governance uses the default severity defined in the violation definition.

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