Cloud Account Prerequisites¶
AccuKnox Saas Platform supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform accounts onboarding. In this section we can find the prerequisites to onboard the cloud accounts
AWS Cloud Account
AWS onboarding requires creation of an IAM user. Please follow the following steps to provide a user with appropriate read access:
Step 1: Navigate to IAM -> Users and click on Add Users
Step 2: Give a username to identify the user
Step 3: In the "Set Permissions" screen:
a. Select "Attach policies directly"
b. Search "ReadOnly", Filter by Type: "AWS managed - job function" and select the policy
c. Search "SecurityAudit", Filter by Type: "AWS managed - job function" and select the policy
Step 4: Finish creating the user. Click on the newly created user and create the Access key and Secret Key from the Security Credentials tab to be used in the Accuknox panel
GCP Cloud Account
For GCP there is a requirement for IAM Service Account Access.
Step 1: Log into your Google Cloud console and navigate to IAM Admin > Service Accounts
Step 2: Click on "Create Service Account".
Step 3: Enter "AccuKnox" in the "Service account name", then enter "Accuknox API Access" in the description.
Step 4: Click on Continue.
Step 5: Select the role: Project > Viewer and click Continue.
Step 6: Click on “Done”
Step 7: To create a “Key” click the created service account
Step 8: Click Add Key and Create new key
Step 9: Check the JSON file and create.
Note: The created JSON private key file will be downloaded to your local machine by default.
Azure Cloud Account
For Azure Onboarding it is required to register an App and giving Security read access to that App from the Azure portal.
Step 1: Go to your Azure Portal and search for App registrations and open it
Step 2: Here click on New registration
Step 3: Give your application a name, remember this name as it will be used again later, For the rest keep the default settings
Step 4: Now your application is created, save Application ID and Directory ID as they will be needed to for onboarding on Accuknox Saas and then click on ‘Add a certificate or secret’
Step 5: Click on new client secret and enter the name and expiration date to get secret id and secret value, save this secret value as this will also be needed for onboarding.
Step 6: Next, go to API permissions tab and click on 'Add permission'
Step 7: On the screen that appears, click on 'Microsoft Graph'
Step 8: Next, select Application Permissions and then search for Directory.Read.All and click on Add permissions
Step 9: Select ‘Grant Admin Consent’ for Default Directory and click on ‘Yes’
Step 10: Now we need to give Security read permissions to this registered Application , to do that go to subscriptions
Step 11: First save the subscription ID and click on the subscription name , here it is “Microsoft Azure Sponsorship“
Step 12: Navigate to Access control(IAM) and go to Roles , here select Add and Add role assignment
Step 13: Search for “Security Reader” Job function Role, select it and press next
Step 14: In the member section click on Select members it will open a dropdown menu on the right hand side
Step 15: Here search for the Application that you registered in the beginning , select the application and click on review and assign.
Step 16: Similarly, we have to add another role. This time, search for Log Analytics Reader. Select it and click next
Step 17: Now, click on Select members, select the application that was created similar to the previous role. Finally, click on Review and Assign.
