Forwarded Google Workspace Security Alert

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies the occurrence of a security alert from the Google Workspace alerts center. Google Workspace’s security alert center provides an overview of actionable alerts that may be affecting an organization’s domain. An alert is a warning of a potential security issue that Google has detected.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-google_workspace*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 10m

Searches indices from: now-130m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://workspace.google.com/products/admin/alert-center/

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
Google Workspace
Log Auditing
Threat Detection

Version: 1

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

Triage and analysis

This is a promotion rule for Google Workspace security events, which are alertable events per the vendor.
Consult vendor documentation on interpreting specific events.

Rule query

event.dataset: google_workspace.alert