GCP security audit – some considerations
Security Audits are a top requirement for any public cloud migration – pre-migration and post migration effort.
Anuj Varma offers an in-depth cloud security audit, covering all the pillars of security.
Some common vulnerabilities that occur on GCP include:
- — Service Account Credentials in Code. It’s important that Svc Acct creds be secured – especially if you have downoaded a JSON Key file.
- — Whitelist / Enable APIs as needed
- — Leaving Public IPs intact on Compute Engine Instances
- — CMEKs – While GCP provides encryption by default (at rest data), it is recommended to leverage CMKs (CMEKs in GCP).
- — Layer 7 monitoring and alerting for GCP Hosted Apps
- — GKE Master Node Unprotected
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Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.
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