OCI-022 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Budget alerts detect anomalous spend (abuse indicator).

Domain: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Area: Governance
Automated / manual: Automated

Risk if it fails

Crypto-mining/abuse goes unbilled-flagged.

A sudden cost spike is often the first sign of an attacker mining cryptocurrency on your account. Budget alerts catch the abuse before the bill explodes.

How Tess tests it

1 test — each concludes only on cited evidence.

Budget alerts detect anomalous spend (abuse indicator).

Automated

Procedure: Confirm budgets and alert rules exist.

Read-only command

oci budgets budget list --compartment-id <tenancy-ocid> --all -o table

More in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

OCI-001 MFA is enforced for all IAM users, especially administrators. OCI-002 Customer secret keys / API keys are rotated regularly (<=90 days). OCI-003 A strong password policy is configured. OCI-004 Membership of the Administrators group is minimal.

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