Vulnerability findings

Security Health Analytics and Web Security Scanner detectors generate vulnerability findings that are available in Security Command Center. When they are enabled in Security Command Center, integrated services, like VM Manager, also generate vulnerability findings.

Your ability to view and edit findings is determined by the Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and permissions you are assigned. For more information about IAM roles in Security Command Center, see Access control.

Detectors and compliance

Security Command Center monitors your compliance with detectors that are mapped to the controls of a wide variety of security standards.

For each supported security standard, Security Command Center checks a subset of the controls. For the controls checked, Security Command Center shows you how many are passing. For the controls that are not passing, Security Command Center shows you a list of findings that describe the control failures.

CIS reviews and certifies the mappings of Security Command Center detectors to each supported version of the CIS Google Cloud Foundations Benchmark. Additional compliance mappings are included for reference purposes only.

Security Command Center adds support for new benchmark versions and standards periodically. Older versions remain supported, but are eventually deprecated. We recommend that you use the latest supported benchmark or standard available.

With the security posture service, you can map organization policies and Security Health Analytics detectors to the standards and controls that apply to your business. After you create a security posture, you can monitor for any changes to the environment that could affect your business's compliance.

With Compliance Manager (Preview), you can deploy frameworks that map regulatory controls to cloud controls. After you create a framework, you can monitor for any changes to the environment that might affect your business's compliance and audit your environment.

For more information about managing compliance, see Assess and report compliance with security standards.

Supported security standards

Google Cloud

Security Command Center maps detectors for Google Cloud to one or more of the following compliance standards:

AWS

Security Command Center maps detectors for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to one or more of the following compliance standards:

For instructions on viewing and exporting compliance reports, see Assess and report compliance with security standards.

Finding deactivation after remediation

After you remediate a vulnerability or misconfiguration finding, the Security Command Center service that detected the finding automatically sets the state of the finding to INACTIVE the next time the detection service scans for the finding. How long Security Command Center takes to set a remediated finding to INACTIVE depends on the schedule of the scan that detects the finding.

The Security Command Center services also set the state of a vulnerability or misconfiguration finding to INACTIVE when a scan detects that the resource that is affected by the finding is deleted.

For more information about scan intervals, see the following topics:

Security Health Analytics findings

Security Health Analytics detectors monitor a subset of resources from Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI), receiving notifications of resource and Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy changes. Some detectors retrieve data by directly calling Google Cloud APIs, as indicated in tables later on this page.

For more information about Security Health Analytics, scan schedules, and the Security Health Analytics support for both built-in and custom module detectors, see Overview of Security Health Analytics.

The following tables describe Security Health Analytics detectors, the assets and compliance standards they support, the settings they use for scans, and the finding types they generate. You can filter findings by various attributes on the following Google Cloud console pages:

  • Vulnerabilities page
  • Risk Overview page > Vulnerabilities dashboard

For instructions on fixing findings and protecting your resources, see Remediating Security Health Analytics findings.

API key vulnerability findings

The API_KEY_SCANNER detector identifies vulnerabilities related to API keys used in your cloud deployment.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: API_KEY_APIS_UNRESTRICTED

Finding description: There are API keys being used too broadly. To resolve this, limit API key usage to allow only the APIs needed by the application.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 1.12
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 1.14
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 1.14
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 1.14
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 1.14
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 1.14
  • NIST 800-53 R5: PL-8, SA-8
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.2, 6.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.27
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-07
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-IP-2
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 16.10

Retrieves the restrictions property of all API keys in a project, checking if any is set to cloudapis.googleapis.com.

  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: API_KEY_APPS_UNRESTRICTED

Finding description: There are API keys being used in an unrestricted way, allowing use by any untrusted app.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 1.11
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 1.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 1.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 1.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 1.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 1.13

Retrieves the restrictions property of all API keys in a project, checking whether browserKeyRestrictions, serverKeyRestrictions, androidKeyRestrictions, or iosKeyRestrictions is set.

  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: API_KEY_EXISTS

Finding description: A project is using API keys instead of standard authentication.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 1.10
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 1.12
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 1.12
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 1.12
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 1.12
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 1.12
  • NIST 800-53 R5: PL-8, SA-8
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.2, 6.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.27
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-07
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-IP-2
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 16.10

Retrieves all API keys owned by a project.

  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: API_KEY_NOT_ROTATED

Finding description: The API key hasn't been rotated for more than 90 days.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 1.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 1.15
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 1.15
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 1.15
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 1.15
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 1.15
  • NIST 800-53 R5: PL-8, SA-8
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.2, 6.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.27
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-07
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-IP-2
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 16.10

Retrieves the timestamp contained in the createTime property of all API keys, checking whether 90 days have passed.

  • Real-time scans: No

Cloud Asset Inventory vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to Cloud Asset Inventory configurations and belong to the CLOUD_ASSET_SCANNER type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: CLOUD_ASSET_API_DISABLED

Finding description: The capturing of Google Cloud resources and IAM policies by Cloud Asset Inventory enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. We recommend that Cloud Asset Inventory service be enabled for all projects. This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
pubsub.googleapis.com/Project

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 2.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 2.13
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 2.13
  • NIST 800-53 R5: CM-8, PM-5
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 11.2.1, 11.2.2, 12.5.1, 9.5.1, 9.5.1.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.9, A.8.8
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: UEM-04
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: ID-AM-1, PR-DS-3
  • SOC2 v2017: CC3.2.6, CC6.1.1
  • HIPAA: 164.310(d)(2)(iii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 1.1, 6.6

Checks if the Cloud Asset Inventory service is enabled.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Storage vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to Cloud Storage Buckets configurations, and belong to theSTORAGE_SCANNERtype.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: BUCKET_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: A bucket is not encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
storage.googleapis.com/Bucket

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Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the encryption field in bucket metadata for the resource name of your CMEK.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: BUCKET_POLICY_ONLY_DISABLED

Finding description: Uniform bucket-level access, previously called Bucket Policy Only, isn't configured.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
storage.googleapis.com/Bucket

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 5.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 5.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 5.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 5.2
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-3, AC-5, AC-6, MP-2
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.10, A.5.15, A.8.3, A.8.4
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-17
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-4
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.3, CC6.1.3, CC6.1.7
  • HIPAA: 164.308(a)(3)(i), 164.308(a)(3)(ii), 164.312(a)(1)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.3

Checks whether the uniformBucketLevelAccess property on a bucket is set to "enabled":false

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: PUBLIC_BUCKET_ACL

Finding description: A Cloud Storage bucket is publicly accessible.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
storage.googleapis.com/Bucket

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 5.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 5.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 5.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 5.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 5.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 5.1
  • NIST 800-53 R4: AC-2
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-3, AC-5, AC-6, MP-2
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 7.1
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.14.1.3, A.8.2.3
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.10, A.5.15, A.8.3, A.8.4
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-17
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-4
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.3, CC6.1.3, CC6.1.7
  • HIPAA: 164.308(a)(3)(i), 164.308(a)(3)(ii), 164.312(a)(1)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.3

Checks the IAM allow policy of a bucket for public roles, allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: PUBLIC_LOG_BUCKET

Finding description: A storage bucket used as a log sink is publicly accessible.

This finding isn't available for project-level activations.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
storage.googleapis.com/Bucket

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: AU-9
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 10.5
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.12.4.2, A.18.1.3, A.8.2.3

Checks the IAM allow policy of a bucket for the principals allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers, which grant public access.

  • Additional inputs: Reads the log sink (the log filter and log destination) for a bucket to determine whether it is a log bucket
  • Real-time scans: Yes, but only if IAM policy on bucket changes, not if log sink is changed

Compute image vulnerability findings

The COMPUTE_IMAGE_SCANNER detector identifies vulnerabilities related to Google Cloud image configurations.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: PUBLIC_COMPUTE_IMAGE

Finding description: A Compute Engine image is publicly accessible.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Image

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Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the IAM allow policy in resource metadata for the principals allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers, which grant public access.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Compute instance vulnerability findings

The COMPUTE_INSTANCE_SCANNER detector identifies vulnerabilities related to Compute Engine instance configurations.

COMPUTE_INSTANCE_SCANNER detectors don't report findings on Compute Engine instances created by GKE. Such instances have names that start with "gke-", which users cannot edit. To secure these instances, refer to the Container vulnerability findings section.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: CONFIDENTIAL_COMPUTING_DISABLED

Finding description: Confidential Computing is disabled on a Compute Engine instance.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.11
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.11
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.11
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.11
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5, SC-28
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1, 3.5.1.2, 3.5.1.3, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.33
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.10, CC6.1.3
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.11

Checks the confidentialInstanceConfig property of instance metadata for the key-value pair "enableConfidentialCompute":true.

  • Assets excluded from scans:
    • GKE instances
    • Serverless VPC Access
    • Instances related to Dataflow jobs
    • Compute Engine instances that are not of type N2D
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: COMPUTE_PROJECT_WIDE_SSH_KEYS_ALLOWED

Finding description: Project-wide SSH keys are used, allowing login to all instances in the project.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.3
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-17, IA-5, SC-8
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.7, 4.1.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.1.2, 4.2.2, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.14
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-2
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.11, CC6.1.3, CC6.1.8, CC6.7.2
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(1), 164.312(e)(2)(i), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.10, 5.2

Checks the metadata.items[] object in instance metadata for the key-value pair "key": "block-project-ssh-keys", "value": TRUE.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, Dataflow job, Windows instance
  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads metadata from Compute Engine
  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: COMPUTE_SECURE_BOOT_DISABLED

Finding description: This Shielded VM does not have Secure Boot enabled. Using Secure Boot helps protect virtual machine instances against advanced threats such as rootkits and bootkits.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the shieldedInstanceConfig property on Compute Engine instances to determine if enableSecureBoot is set to true. This detector checks whether attached disks are compatible with Secure Boot and Secure Boot is enabled.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, Compute Engine disks that have GPU accelerators and don't use Container-Optimized OS, Serverless VPC Access
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: COMPUTE_SERIAL_PORTS_ENABLED

Finding description: Serial ports are enabled for an instance, allowing connections to the instance's serial console.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.5
  • NIST 800-53 R5: CM-6, CM-7
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.2.5, 2.2.4, 6.4.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.9
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.6.1, CC6.6.3, CC6.6.4
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.8

Checks the metadata.items[] object in instance metadata for the key-value pair "key": "serial-port-enable", "value": TRUE.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances
  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads metadata from Compute Engine
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: DEFAULT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USED

Finding description: An instance is configured to use the default service account.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.1
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.2, 2.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.2, A.8.9
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.3.1, CC6.3.2, CC6.3.3
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.7

Checks the serviceAccounts property in instance metadata for any service account email addresses with the prefix PROJECT_NUMBER[email protected], indicating the Google-created default service account.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, Dataflow jobs
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: DISK_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: Disks on this VM are not encrypted with customer- managed encryption keys (CMEK). This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Disk

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Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the kmsKeyName field in the diskEncryptionKey object, in disk metadata, for the resource name of your CMEK.

  • Assets excluded from scans: Disks related to Cloud Composer environments, Dataflow jobs, and GKE instances
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: DISK_CSEK_DISABLED

Finding description: Disks on this VM are not encrypted with Customer Supplied Encryption Keys (CSEK). This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Special-case detector.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Disk

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.6
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.7
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.7
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.7
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.7
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.7
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5, SC-28
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1, 3.5.1.2, 3.5.1.3, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.33
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.10, CC6.1.3
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.11

Checks the sha256 field in the diskEncryptionKey object for the resource name of your CSEK.

  • Assets excluded from scans:
    Compute Engine disks without the enforce_customer_supplied_disk_encryption_keys security mark set to true
  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads metadata from Compute Engine
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: FULL_API_ACCESS

Finding description: An instance is configured to use the default service account with full access to all Google Cloud APIs.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.2
  • NIST 800-53 R4: AC-6
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 7.1.2
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 2.2.2, 2.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.9.2.3
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.2, A.8.9
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.3.1, CC6.3.2, CC6.3.3
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.7

Retrieves the scopes field in the serviceAccounts property to check whether a default service account is used and if it is assigned the cloud-platform scope.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, Dataflow jobs
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: HTTP_LOAD_BALANCER

Finding description: An instance uses a load balancer that is configured to use a target HTTP proxy instead of a target HTTPS proxy.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/TargetHttpProxy

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Compliance standards:

  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 2.3

Determines if the selfLink property of the targetHttpProxy resource matches the target attribute in the forwarding rule, and if the forwarding rule contains a loadBalancingScheme field set to External.

  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads forwarding rules for a target HTTP proxy from Compute Engine, checking for external rules
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: INSTANCE_OS_LOGIN_DISABLED

Finding description: OS Login is disabled on this instance.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.4
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.15
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.4, CC6.1.6, CC6.1.8, CC6.1.9
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 5.6, 6.7

Checks whether the enable-oslogin property from the Custom metadata of the instance is set to TRUE.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, instances related to Dataflow jobs, Serverless VPC Access
  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads metadata from Compute Engine.
  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: IP_FORWARDING_ENABLED

Finding description: IP forwarding is enabled on instances.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

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Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.6
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.6
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.6
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.6
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.6
  • NIST 800-53 R5: CA-9, SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.2.1, 1.4.1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.6.1, CC6.6.4
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.4, 4.5

Checks whether the canIpForward property of the instance is set to true.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, Serverless VPC Access
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OS_LOGIN_DISABLED

Finding description: OS Login is disabled on this project.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Project

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 4.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.4
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.4
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.15
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.4, CC6.1.6, CC6.1.8, CC6.1.9
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 5.6, 6.7

Checks the commonInstanceMetadata.items[] object in project metadata for the key-value pair, "key": "enable-oslogin", "value": TRUE. The detector also checks all instances in a Compute Engine project to determine whether OS Login is disabled for individual instances.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, instances related to Dataflow jobs
  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads metadata from Compute Engine. The detector also examines Compute Engine instances in the project
  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS

Finding description: An instance has a public IP address.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.9
  • NIST 800-53 R4: CA-3, SC-7
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-3, AC-5, AC-6, MP-2
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.10, A.5.15, A.8.3, A.8.4
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-17
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-4
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.3, CC6.1.3, CC6.1.7
  • HIPAA: 164.308(a)(3)(i), 164.308(a)(3)(ii), 164.312(a)(1)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.3

Checks whether the networkInterfaces property contains an accessConfigs field, indicating it is configured to use a public IP address.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances, instances related to Dataflow jobs
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: SHIELDED_VM_DISABLED

Finding description: Shielded VM is disabled on this instance.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Instance

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 4.8
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 4.8
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 4.8
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 4.8
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 4.8

Checks the shieldedInstanceConfig property in Compute Engine instances to determine if the enableIntegrityMonitoring and enableVtpm fields are set to true. The fields indicate whether Shielded VM is turned on.

  • Assets excluded from scans: GKE instances and Serverless VPC Access
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: WEAK_SSL_POLICY

Finding description: An instance has a weak SSL policy.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/TargetHttpsProxy
compute.googleapis.com/TargetSslProxy

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 3.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 3.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 3.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 3.9
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 3.9
  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 4.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.14.1.3

Checks whether sslPolicy in asset metadata is empty or is using the Google Cloud default policy and, for the attached sslPolicies resource, whether profile is set to Restricted or Modern, minTlsVersion is set to TLS 1.2, and customFeatures is empty or does not contain the following ciphers: TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA.

  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/compute.Viewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads SSL policies for target proxies storage, checking for weak policies
  • Real-time scans: Yes, but only when the TargetHttpsProxy of the TargetSslProxy is updated, not when the SSL policy gets updated

Container vulnerability findings

These finding types all relate to GKE container configurations, and belong to the CONTAINER_SCANNER detector type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: ALPHA_CLUSTER_ENABLED

Finding description: Alpha cluster features are enabled for a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.10.2

Checks whether the enableKubernetesAlpha property of a cluster is set to true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: AUTO_REPAIR_DISABLED

Finding description: A GKE cluster's auto repair feature, which keeps nodes in a healthy, running state, is disabled.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.7
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.2
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 2.2

Checks the management property of a node pool for the key-value pair, "key": "autoRepair", "value": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: AUTO_UPGRADE_DISABLED

Finding description: A GKE cluster's auto upgrade feature, which keeps clusters and node pools on the latest stable version of Kubernetes, is disabled.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.8
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.3
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 2.2

Checks the management property of a node pool for the key-value pair, "key": "autoUpgrade", "value": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: BINARY_AUTHORIZATION_DISABLED

Finding description: Binary Authorization is either disabled on the GKE cluster or the Binary Authorization policy is configured to allow all images to be deployed.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the following:

  • Checks whether the binaryAuthorization property has one of the following key-value pairs:
    • "evaluationMode": "PROJECT_SINGLETON_POLICY_ENFORCE"
    • "evaluationMode": "POLICY_BINDINGS"
    • "evaluationMode": "POLICY_BINDINGS_AND_PROJECT_SINGLETON_POLICY_ENFORCE"
  • Checks whether the defaultAdmissionRule policy property does not contain the key-value pair evaluationMode: ALWAYS_ALLOW.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: CLUSTER_LOGGING_DISABLED

Finding description: Logging isn't enabled for a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.1
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.7.1
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 10.2.2, 10.2.7

Checks whether the loggingService property of a cluster contains the location Cloud Logging should use to write logs.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: CLUSTER_MONITORING_DISABLED

Finding description: Monitoring is disabled on GKE clusters.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.2
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.7.1
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 10.1, 10.2

Checks whether the monitoringService property of a cluster contains the location Cloud Monitoring should use to write metrics.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: CLUSTER_PRIVATE_GOOGLE_ACCESS_DISABLED

Finding description: Cluster hosts are not configured to use only private, internal IP addresses to access Google APIs.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.16
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.3

Checks whether the privateIpGoogleAccess property of a subnetwork is set to false.

  • Additional inputs: Reads subnetworks from storage, filing findings only for clusters with subnetworks
  • Real-time scans: Yes, but only if cluster is updated, not for subnetwork updates

Category name in the API: CLUSTER_SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_DISABLED

Finding description: Application-layer secrets encryption is disabled on a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.3.1

Checks the keyName property of the databaseEncryption object for the key-value pair "state": ENCRYPTED.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: CLUSTER_SHIELDED_NODES_DISABLED

Finding description: Shielded GKE nodes are not enabled for a cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.5

Checks the shieldedNodes property for the key-value pair "enabled": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: COS_NOT_USED

Finding description: Compute Engine VMs aren't using the Container-Optimized OS that is designed for running Docker containers on Google Cloud securely.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.9
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.1
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 2.2

Checks the config property of a node pool for the key-value pair, "imageType": "COS".

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: INTEGRITY_MONITORING_DISABLED

Finding description: Integrity monitoring is disabled for a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.6

Checks the shieldedInstanceConfig property of the nodeConfig object for the key-value pair "enableIntegrityMonitoring": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: INTRANODE_VISIBILITY_DISABLED

Finding description: Intranode visibility is disabled for a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.6.1

Checks the networkConfig property for the key-value pair "enableIntraNodeVisibility": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: IP_ALIAS_DISABLED

Finding description: A GKE cluster was created with alias IP ranges disabled.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.13
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.6.2
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.3.4, 1.3.7

Checks whether the useIPAliases field of the ipAllocationPolicy in a cluster is set to false.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: LEGACY_AUTHORIZATION_ENABLED

Finding description: Legacy Authorization is enabled on GKE clusters.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.3
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.8.3
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 4.1

Checks the legacyAbac property of a cluster for the key-value pair, "enabled": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: LEGACY_METADATA_ENABLED

Finding description: Legacy metadata is enabled on GKE clusters.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.4.1

Checks the config property of a node pool for the key-value pair, "disable-legacy-endpoints": "false".

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: MASTER_AUTHORIZED_NETWORKS_DISABLED

Finding description: Control Plane Authorized Networks is not enabled on GKE clusters.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.4
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.6.3
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1, 1.3.2

Checks the masterAuthorizedNetworksConfig property of a cluster for the key-value pair, "enabled": false.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: NETWORK_POLICY_DISABLED

Finding description: Network policy is disabled on GKE clusters.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.11
  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.3
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the networkPolicy field of the addonsConfig property for the key-value pair, "disabled": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: NODEPOOL_BOOT_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: Boot disks in this node pool are not encrypted with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks the bootDiskKmsKey property of node pools for the resource name of your CMEK.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: NODEPOOL_SECURE_BOOT_DISABLED

Finding description: Secure Boot is disabled for a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.7

Checks the shieldedInstanceConfig property of the nodeConfig object for the key-value pair "enableSecureBoot": true.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OVER_PRIVILEGED_ACCOUNT

Finding description: A service account has overly broad project access in a cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.17
  • NIST 800-53 R4: AC-6, SC-7
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.2.1
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 2.1, 7.1.2
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.9.2.3

Evaluates the config property of a node pool to check if no service account is specified or if the default service account is used.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OVER_PRIVILEGED_SCOPES

Finding description: A node service account has broad access scopes.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.18
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.2.1
 Checks whether the access scope listed in the config.oauthScopes property of a node pool is a limited service account access scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write, or https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: POD_SECURITY_POLICY_DISABLED

Finding description: PodSecurityPolicy is disabled on a GKE cluster.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.14
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.10.3

Checks the podSecurityPolicyConfig property of a cluster for the key-value pair, "enabled": false.

  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/container.clusterViewer
  • Additional inputs: Reads cluster information from GKE, because pod security policies are a Beta feature. Kubernetes has officially deprecated PodSecurityPolicy in version 1.21. PodSecurityPolicy will be shut down in version 1.25. For information about alternatives, refer to PodSecurityPolicy deprecation.
  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: PRIVATE_CLUSTER_DISABLED

Finding description: A GKE cluster has a Private cluster disabled.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.15
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.6.5
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.3.2

Checks whether the enablePrivateNodes field of the privateClusterConfig property is set to false.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: RELEASE_CHANNEL_DISABLED

Finding description: A GKE cluster is not subscribed to a release channel.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.5.4

Checks the releaseChannel property for the key-value pair "channel": UNSPECIFIED.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: WEB_UI_ENABLED

Finding description: The GKE web UI (dashboard) is enabled.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 7.6
  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.10.1
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 6.6

Checks the kubernetesDashboard field of the addonsConfig property for the key-value pair, "disabled": false.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_DISABLED

Finding description: Workload Identity is disabled on a GKE cluster.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
container.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GKE 1.0: 6.2.2

Checks whether the workloadIdentityConfig property of a cluster is set. The detector also checks whether the workloadMetadataConfig property of a node pool is set to GKE_METADATA.

  • Additional IAM permissions: roles/container.clusterViewer
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Dataproc vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to Dataproc and belong to the DATAPROC_SCANNER detector type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: DATAPROC_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: A Dataproc cluster was created without an encryption configuration CMEK. With CMEK, keys that you create and manage in Cloud Key Management Service wrap the keys that Google Cloud uses to encrypt your data, giving you more control over access to your data. This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
dataproc.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 1.17
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 1.17
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 8.1
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5, SC-28
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1, 3.5.1.2, 3.5.1.3, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.33
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.10, CC6.1.3
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.11

Checks whether the kmsKeyName field in the encryptionConfiguration property is empty.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: DATAPROC_IMAGE_OUTDATED

Finding description: A Dataproc cluster was created with a Dataproc image version that is impacted by security vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j 2 utility (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046).

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
dataproc.googleapis.com/Cluster

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

This finding category is not mapped to any compliance standard controls.

Checks whether the softwareConfig.imageVersion field in the config property of a Cluster is earlier than 1.3.95 or is a subminor image version earlier than 1.4.77, 1.5.53, or 2.0.27.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Dataset vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to BigQuery Dataset configurations, and belong to the DATASET_SCANNER detector type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: BIGQUERY_TABLE_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: A BigQuery table is not configured to use a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK). This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
bigquery.googleapis.com/Table

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 7.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 7.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 7.2
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 7.2
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5, SC-28
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1, 3.5.1.2, 3.5.1.3, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.33
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.10, CC6.1.3
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.11

Checks whether the kmsKeyName field in the encryptionConfiguration property is empty.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: DATASET_CMEK_DISABLED

Finding description: A BigQuery dataset is not configured to use a default CMEK. This detector requires additional configuration to enable. For instructions, see Enable and disable detectors.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
bigquery.googleapis.com/Dataset

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 7.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 7.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 7.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 7.3
  • NIST 800-53 R5: IA-5, SC-28
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 3.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.5.1, 3.5.1.2, 3.5.1.3, 8.3.2
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.33
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: CEK-03
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-DS-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC6.1.10, CC6.1.3
  • HIPAA: 164.312(a)(2)(iv), 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.11

Checks whether the kmsKeyName field in the defaultEncryptionConfiguration property is empty.

  • Real-time scans: No

Category name in the API: PUBLIC_DATASET

Finding description: A dataset is configured to be open to public access.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
bigquery.googleapis.com/Dataset

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 7.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 7.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 7.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 7.1
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 7.1
  • NIST 800-53 R4: AC-2
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-3, AC-5, AC-6, MP-2
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 7.1
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.3.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.14.1.3, A.8.2.3
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.5.10, A.5.15, A.8.3, A.8.4
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: DSP-17
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-AC-4
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.3, CC6.1.3, CC6.1.7
  • HIPAA: 164.308(a)(3)(i), 164.308(a)(3)(ii), 164.312(a)(1)
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 3.3

Checks the IAM allow policy in resource metadata for the principals allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers, which grant public access.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

DNS vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to Cloud DNS configurations, and belong to the DNS_SCANNER detector type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: DNSSEC_DISABLED

Finding description: DNSSEC is disabled for Cloud DNS zones.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
dns.googleapis.com/ManagedZone

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 3.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 3.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 3.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 3.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 3.3
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 3.3
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-18, CM-2, CM-6, CM-7, CM-9
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.4.2, 1.5.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.8.2.3
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.9
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: IVS-04
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-IP-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.2
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.2

Checks whether the state field of the dnssecConfig property is set to off.

  • Assets excluded from scans: Cloud DNS zones that are not public
  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: RSASHA1_FOR_SIGNING

Finding description: RSASHA1 is used for key signing in Cloud DNS zones.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
dns.googleapis.com/ManagedZone

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.0: 3.4, 3.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.1: 3.4, 3.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.2: 3.4, 3.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 1.3: 3.4, 3.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 2.0: 3.4, 3.5
  • CIS GCP Foundation 3.0: 3.4, 3.5
  • NIST 800-53 R5: AC-18, CM-2, CM-6, CM-7, CM-9
  • PCI-DSS v4.0: 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.4.2, 1.5.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2022: A.8.9
  • Cloud Controls Matrix 4: IVS-04
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0: PR-IP-1
  • SOC2 v2017: CC5.2.2
  • CIS Controls 8.0: 4.2

Checks whether the defaultKeySpecs.algorithm object of the dnssecConfig property is set to rsasha1.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Firewall vulnerability findings

Vulnerabilities of this detector type all relate to firewall configurations, and belong to the FIREWALL_SCANNER detector type.

Detector Summary Asset scan settings

Category name in the API: EGRESS_DENY_RULE_NOT_SET

Finding description: An egress deny rule is not set on a firewall. Egress deny rules should be set to block unwanted outbound traffic.

For project-level activations of the Security Command Center Premium tier, this finding is available only if the Standard tier is enabled in the parent organization.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 7.2

Checks whether the destinationRanges property in the firewall is set to 0.0.0.0/0 and the denied property contains the key-value pair, "IPProtocol": "all".

  • Additional inputs: Reads egress firewalls for a project from storage
  • Real-time scans: Yes, but only on project changes, not firewall rule changes

Category name in the API: FIREWALL_RULE_LOGGING_DISABLED

Finding description: Firewall rule logging is disabled. Firewall rule logging should be enabled so you can audit network access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

Fix this finding

Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SI-4
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 10.1, 10.2
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the logConfig property in firewall metadata to see if it's empty or contains the key-value pair "enable": false.

Category name in the API: OPEN_CASSANDRA_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open Cassandra port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:7000-7001, 7199, 8888, 9042, 9160, 61620-61621.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_CISCOSECURE_WEBSM_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open CISCOSECURE_WEBSM port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocol and port: TCP:9090.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_DIRECTORY_SERVICES_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open DIRECTORY_SERVICES port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:445 and UDP:445.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_DNS_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open DNS port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:53 and UDP:53.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_ELASTICSEARCH_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open ELASTICSEARCH port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:9200, 9300.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_FIREWALL

Finding description: A firewall is configured to be open to public access.

Pricing tier: Premium or Standard

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1

Checks the sourceRanges and allowed properties for one of two configurations:

  • The sourceRanges property contains 0.0.0.0/0 and the allowed property contains a combination of rules that includes any protocol or protocol:port, except the following:
    • icmp
    • tcp:22
    • tcp:443
    • tcp:3389
    • udp:3389
    • sctp:22
  • The sourceRanges property contains a combination of IP ranges that includes any non-private IP address and the allowed property contains a combination of rules that permit either all tcp ports or all udp ports.

Category name in the API: OPEN_FTP_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open FTP port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocol and port: TCP:21.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_HTTP_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open HTTP port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:80.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_LDAP_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open LDAP port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:389, 636 and UDP:389.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_MEMCACHED_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open MEMCACHED port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:11211, 11214-11215 and UDP:11211, 11214-11215.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_MONGODB_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open MONGODB port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:27017-27019.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_MYSQL_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open MYSQL port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocol and port: TCP:3306.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_NETBIOS_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open NETBIOS port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:137-139 and UDP:137-139.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_ORACLEDB_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open ORACLEDB port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocols and ports: TCP:1521, 2483-2484 and UDP:2483-2484.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_POP3_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open POP3 port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: Premium

Supported assets
compute.googleapis.com/Firewall

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Compliance standards:

  • NIST 800-53 R4: SC-7
  • PCI-DSS v3.2.1: 1.2.1
  • ISO-27001 v2013: A.13.1.1

Checks the allowed property in firewall metadata for the following protocol and port: TCP:110.

  • Real-time scans: Yes

Category name in the API: OPEN_POSTGRESQL_PORT

Finding description: A firewall is configured to have an open PostgreSQL port that allows generic access.

Pricing tier: