PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
Which Google Cloud SIEM solution ingests logs from various sources, normalizes them into the Unified Data Model (UDM), and allows detection using YARA-L rules?
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Chronicle
Chronicle is Google Cloud's SIEM solution that ingests logs, normalizes them into UDM, and enables detection rules with YARA-L. Security Command Center is a security posture management tool, not a SIEM. Cloud Logging is for log storage and analysis, not SIEM. BigQuery is a data warehouse.
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Chronicle
Why this is correct
Chronicle is the SIEM that uses UDM and YARA-L.
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Cloud Logging
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Logging stores logs and can be used for monitoring, but it is not a SIEM.
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BigQuery
Why it's wrong here
BigQuery is a data warehouse, not a SIEM.
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Security Command Center
Why it's wrong here
SCC is for asset inventory, vulnerability detection, and threat detection, not SIEM.
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