Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form

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  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form

    The Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form in ServiceNow provides a detailed interface for defining and managing cloud resource compliance policies. It enables customers to specify the cloud provider, resource types, policy conditions, and how violations are reported. This form is essential for enforcing governance and ensuring cloud resources meet organizational standards.

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    Key Features

    • Policy Identification: Define a unique Policy name and provide a brief Description to clarify the policy’s purpose.
    • Resource Specification: Select the Cloud provider hosting the resources and specify the Resource type to be scanned. If the required resource type does not exist, customers can create new resource collectors.
    • Policy Conditions: Choose among three policy creation methods:
      • Condition Builder: A no-code interface for defining key-value conditions using logical operators (AND, OR).
      • Integration Hub Flow: A low-code method using integration flows and configuration keys.
      • Script: Full code-based policies with scripting capabilities, including the use of scriptable objects and external script includes for reusable logic.
      The form dynamically presents relevant fields based on the selected policy type.
    • Audit Violation Reporting: Configure how policy violations are reported by associating them with violation definitions. Customers can create new violation definitions with unique names, default severity levels, and optional descriptions to standardize compliance reporting. If severity is not specified in the policy, the default from the violation definition applies.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    This form allows customers to enforce cloud governance by creating precise policies that detect non-compliant resources based on customizable conditions or scripts. It supports flexibility ranging from simple no-code conditions to advanced scripted logic. The violation reporting configuration ensures that compliance issues are captured consistently and clearly in audit reports, supporting effective remediation and governance oversight.

    The Cloud Configuration Governance Policy form displays detailed information about the policy such as cloud provider, resource type, policy type, and policy violation reporting settings.

    Field Description
    Policy name Name that uniquely identifies the policy.
    Description Brief description of the policy.

    Resource type

    Define the resource type for which you want to create the policy.

    Field Description
    Cloud provider Cloud that hosts the resources to be scanned.
    Resource type Cloud resource type to be scanned through the policy.

    If the required resource type is not available, you can create a resource type. For more information, see Create a resource collector.

    Policy condition

    Define the policy type and the non-compliant resource configuration.

    Field Description
    Type Cloud Configuration Governance supports the following types:
    • Condition builder: The no-code method for creating policies.
    • Integration Hub Flow: The low-code method for creating policies.
    • Script: The code-based method for creating policies.

    Select the show available keys icon (Show available keys icon.) to view the list of all available configuration keys for the selected resource type. You can use any of the keys in the policy.
    Condition

    Conditions for reporting the non-compliant cloud resource configuration. Always specify the key and value in a pair. Use the OR operator and the AND operator to perform logical operations in the policy condition.

    Syntax

    Key is <key_name>
<data_type> Value <condition> <value>

    For example,

    Key is AWS:IAM:User:PasswordEnabled
Boolean Value is true

    This field appears only when Condition Builder is selected from the Type field.
    Configuration key

    Configuration keys for the policy.

    This field appears only when Integration Hub Flow is selected from the Type field.
    Integration flow

    The appropriate Integration Hub flow.

    This field appears only when Integration Hub Flow is selected from the Type field.
    Condition script

    Script that implements the policy conditions to identify and report the policy violations. Cloud Configuration Governance contains several scriptable objects and variables for use in the policy scripts. For more information see, Scripting reference.

    You can create script includes to externalize the decision making and reuse the code across different scripts. For more information on creating the script includes, see Script includes.

    Note:
    If you create a custom audit result record through the script, then the Audit Violation Reporting configuration defined in the policy doesn’t take effect.

    This field appears only when Script is selected from the Type field.

    Audit violation reporting

    Define how Cloud Configuration Governance reports the policy violation.

    Field Description
    Report violation as Violation definition to be included in the audit violation report. Cloud Configuration Governance uses the violation definition to report the policy non-compliances.
    If an appropriate violation definition is not available, you can create one as follows:
    1. Select the lookup using list icon (Lookup using list icon.).
    2. Select New.
    3. Enter a name that uniquely identifies the violation definition.

      Cloud Configuration Governance includes the name of the violation definition in the audit issue report.

    4. Select the default severity for the violation definition.
    5. (Optional) Enter a brief description of the violation.
    Severity Severity level of the violation.

    If you do not select the severity level in the policy, Cloud Configuration Governance uses the default severity defined in the violation definition.