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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #376

Your organization is using Google Workspace, Google Cloud, and a third-party SIEM. You need to export events such as user logins, successful logins, and failed logins to the SIEM. Logs need to be…

The correct answer is D. Create a Cloud Logging sink to export relevant authentication logs to a Pub/Sub topic for SIEM. The recommended approach is to create a Cloud Logging sink that exports authentication logs (e.g., login successes and failures) to a Pub/Sub topic, which the SIEM can subscribe to. This enables real-time or near real-time log streaming from both Google Workspace and Google…

Submitted by jordan8· Apr 18, 2026Ensuring compliance

Question

Your organization is using Google Workspace, Google Cloud, and a third-party SIEM. You need to export events such as user logins, successful logins, and failed logins to the SIEM. Logs need to be ingested in real time or near real-time. What should you do?

Options

  • APoll Cloud Logging for authentication events using the gcloud logging read tool. Forward the
  • BConfigure Google Workspace to directly send logs to the API endpoint of the third-party SIEM.
  • CCreate a Cloud Storage bucket as a sink for all logs. Configure the SIEM to periodically scan the
  • DCreate a Cloud Logging sink to export relevant authentication logs to a Pub/Sub topic for SIEM

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    13% (5)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    8% (3)
  • D
    74% (28)

Explanation

The recommended approach is to create a Cloud Logging sink that exports authentication logs (e.g., login successes and failures) to a Pub/Sub topic, which the SIEM can subscribe to. This enables real-time or near real-time log streaming from both Google Workspace and Google Cloud to the third-party SIEM, ensuring timely security monitoring and analysis.

Topics

#Cloud Logging#Pub/Sub#SIEM Integration#Real-time Log Export

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