Essential Contacts - Permissions Reference

IAM Essential Contacts is a feature within Google Cloud's Identity and Access Management (IAM) service that enhances incident response and communication during critical events. It enables organizations to designate specific contacts as essential, ensuring they receive timely notifications and updates regarding security incidents, service disruptions, or other critical events affecting their Google Cloud resources.

organizations can streamline incident response workflows and ensure that relevant stakeholders are promptly notified and involved in resolving incidents. This helps minimize downtime, mitigate risks, and maintain operational resilience in the face of security threats or service disruptions.

Permissions Reference

IAM Essential Contacts integrates seamlessly with other Google Cloud services, such as Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging, allowing organizations to automate incident detection and notification processes. Administrators can configure alerting policies to trigger notifications to essential contacts based on predefined conditions or events, such as changes to access permissions, unauthorized access attempts, or system outages.

Prerequisites

Hardware : GCP

Google account

Essential Contacts are used to send the notifications of our GCP to external users.

Open Cloud Console

Open Menu > IAM & Admin > Audit Logs

Click on Add Contact.

Give the mail ID and select the Notifications which you need. Click Save.

The contact added with specified notification categories.

Essential Contacts - Permissions Reference