Google's new tool helps you find abandoned cloud projects and delete them

guest · Aug 9, 2021

Google's new tool helps you find abandoned cloud projects and delete them
...identify and eliminate unattended cloud projects that could become a security risk.
August 9, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googl...ind-abandoned-cloud-projects-and-delete-them/

Google's Unattended Project Recommender feature has moved to a public preview and aims to improve cloud utilization, and address security issues caused by forgotten old cloud-computing projects that shouldn't be around anymore.

Unattended Project Recommender, a part of Google Cloud's Active Assist, could be useful in reducing security risks by finding those old initiatives, such as a prototyping project, that no longer require network access, cloud resources, or supported APIs.
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But benefits include reducing cloud bills for unnecessary resources and reducing configuration issues, such as open firewalls or privileged service account keys that attackers can exploit to get a hold of your cloud resources for cryptocurrency mining or to steal data.

"These security risks tend to grow over time because the latest best practices and patches are usually not applied to unattended projects," Googe said.
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Key signals that Unattended Project Recommender uses include API activity (such as service accounts with authentication activity and API calls consumed), networking activity, billing activity, user activity, and cloud services usage (such as active VMs, BigQuery jobs, and storage requests).

"Based on these signals, it can generate recommendations to clean up projects that have low usage activity (where "low usage" is defined using a machine learning model that ranks projects in your organization by level of usage), or recommendations to reclaim projects that have high usage activity but no active project owners," explain Google Cloud product managers, Dima Melnyk and Bakh Inamov.
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