GCP BigQuery Table Snapshots Should Be Taken Frequently For Redundancy
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Ensure that BigQuery Table Snapshots are taken frequently for redundancy.Risk Level
MediumAddress
SecurityCompliance Standards
SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSSTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration of not taking frequent snapshots of GCP BigQuery tables, follow these steps using the GCP console:
- Open the GCP Console and navigate to the BigQuery section.
- Click on the dataset that contains the table you want to take snapshots of.
- Click on the table you want to take snapshots of.
- In the details panel on the right, click on the “Snapshot” tab.
- Click on the “Create Snapshot” button.
- Enter a name for the snapshot and click “Create”.
- Repeat this process periodically to ensure that you have multiple snapshots of your table for redundancy.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “GCP BigQuery Table Snapshots Should Be Taken Frequently For Redundancy”, we can use the following steps:Note: Replace
- Open the GCP Cloud Shell.
- Run the following command to create a snapshot of a BigQuery table:
<project_id>, <dataset_id> and <table_id> with the appropriate values.- Schedule a cron job to run this command frequently to take snapshots of the table at regular intervals.
- Add the following line to the crontab file to run the snapshot command every day at midnight:
- Save the crontab file and exit.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration of not taking frequent snapshots of GCP BigQuery tables, you can use the following steps in Python:
- Import the necessary libraries:
- Connect to the GCP project and authenticate the user:
- Get the list of all tables in the dataset:
- For each table, check if a snapshot exists and if not, create a new snapshot:
- Set up a cron job to run this script on a regular basis to ensure that snapshots are taken frequently for redundancy.