How to enable Cloud Guard on an OCI Tenancy.

 

Introduction

Oracle Cloud Guard is a comprehensive security service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) designed to provide continuous monitoring, detection, and remediation of security threats. It helps organizations maintain a robust security posture by identifying potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and suspicious activities across their OCI environment. Therefore, organizations are encouraged to enable Cloud Guard to ensure they maintain a proper security posture of their OCI tenancy.

This blog showcases the procedure to enable Cloud Guard on an OCI tenancy.

1. From the navigation menu, go to Identity and Security. Under Access Governance, click on Cloud Guard. The interface below will appear. Then, click on Enable Cloud Guard.

 2. If enabling Cloud Guard for the first time, you will be provided with a list of permissions to create a policy that allows Cloud Guard to manage resources on the tenancy. This must be done as the Administrator user

  3. Click Next, then you will be required to choose the region and indicate whether you will be enabling Cloud Guard for all compartments or a specific compartment. Create a detector recipe or choose the default detector recipe. Finally, choose the default activity recipe and click Enable.

 4.        Below is a screenshot of the security posture after enabling Cloud Guard on your tenancy.