Advisory Notifications delivers communications about critical security and privacy events directly in the Google Cloud console, addressed through Essential Contacts.
What is Advisory Notifications?
Advisory Notifications provides well-targeted, timely, and compliant communications about critical security and privacy events in the Google Cloud console and allows you to securely investigate the event, take action, and get support.
Per the documentation, the service adds trust and security in several ways: by integrating with Essential Contacts, it makes it easy to ensure the most important people are notified. Designated recipients receive only an email notification about the occurrence of an event, not the potentially sensitive information itself. Event details are stored in Google Cloud; viewing the full details requires the proper credentials and IAM permissions.
Core Features
- Security and Privacy Advisory: Communications about security and privacy events
- Sensitive Actions: Notifications about particularly sensitive actions (Preview)
- Security MSA: Communications under the Security MSA
- Threat Horizons: Delivery of Threat Horizons content
- Prioritization: Notifications can be prioritized as desired for critical and timely events
- Secure download: Accompanying notification data can be downloaded securely
Typical Use Cases
Reliable delivery of security events
Delivery to the people registered in Essential Contacts, instead of relying on informal distribution lists.
Keeping confidential details protected
Separating notification from content: the email reports only the event, while details stay behind IAM permissions.
Establishing traceability
Reviewing the documented audit logging to see who accessed which notification.
Keeping track of the threat landscape
Receiving Threat Horizons content as part of the regular notifications.
Benefits
- Targeted delivery: Essential Contacts ensures the responsible people are reached
- Protection of sensitive content: Details require credentials and IAM permissions
- Consolidated in the console: Security and privacy communications in one place
- Traceable: Audit logging is documented
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you with Advisory Notifications: maintaining Essential Contacts, assigning the right permissions, and integrating the notifications into your security processes.
Contact us for a consultation on Advisory Notifications.
Available Tiers & Options
Standard
- Integration with Essential Contacts so the right people are notified
- Event details stay in Google Cloud and require the proper IAM permissions
- Accompanying notification data can be downloaded securely
- Designated recipients receive only an email about the occurrence of an event, not the potentially sensitive information itself
- The Sensitive Actions notification type is in Preview
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Advisory Notifications?
Advisory Notifications provides well-targeted, timely, and compliant communications about critical security and privacy events in the Google Cloud console and allows you to securely investigate the event, take action, and get support.
Which notification types exist?
Per the documentation, the following types are available: Security and Privacy Advisory, Sensitive Actions (in Preview), Security MSA, and Threat Horizons.
Who gets notified?
By integrating with Essential Contacts, Advisory Notifications makes it easy to ensure the most important people are notified. Designated recipients receive only an email notification about the occurrence of a security or privacy event, but not the potentially sensitive information itself.
How are event details protected?
Event details are stored in Google Cloud. To view full details, you must have the proper credentials and Identity and Access Management permissions. Accompanying notification data can be downloaded securely.
What does Advisory Notifications cost?
Google does not publish a dedicated pricing page for Advisory Notifications and the product documentation states no pricing. The official documentation is authoritative.
Note: All product information on this page has been compiled with care, but is provided without guarantee and may be outdated or incomplete. Cloud services evolve rapidly — features, pricing, SLAs, and availability change frequently. Authoritative and up-to-date information can only be found on the official product page of Google Cloud (official documentation). This page does not represent an offer by Google Cloud.
