GCP Provider Setup

Installation

Install GCP’s gcloud CLI.

Authentication

Log in to GCP’s CLI tool using the following command: gcloud auth login.

Configuration

Use our Command Line Interface to step through the configuration process:

censys-cc config --provider gcp

Roles and Permissions

During the configuration, you will notice after you have selected the GCP account, project, organization ID, and service account, the CLI will apply all required roles to the service account upon your confirmation. For your reference, these roles are listed below:

• Security Reviewer (roles/iam.securityReviewer)

• Folder Viewer (roles/resourcemanager.folderViewer)

• Organization Viewer (roles/resourcemanager.organizationViewer)

• Cloud Asset Viewer (roles/cloudasset.viewer)

Note

The linked documentation from GCP includes a list of permissions that come with each role.

Example