Pass Through (Network) Load balancers and GKE Ingress Firewall Rule
Overview If you created a GKE service that allows external access, you will be surprised to see a few firewall rules (at the VPC level) created automatically for…
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Category: Google Cloud Security
GCP – Failed SSH Attempts
Use Case – monitor for failed SSH attempts and alert based on failures Log based alerts would be needed – there is no built in metric for failed…
Public Access Prevention Org Policy GCP
Org Policy – Public Access Prevention It is a best practice to enable this constraint at the top Organization Level. If projects need to override it, they can.…
Cloud DLP – De identify Sensitive Data in GCP
To deidentify sensitive data, you need to replace the data with cryptographic tokens. The GCP service that helps you accomplish this is called Cloud DLP (Cloud data loss…
Scanning for Vulnerabilities on GCP
There are two services you can use Web Security Scanner – this will scan your application (hosted either on App Engine or Compute Engine) for vulnerablities – e.g.…
Edge Security on GCP
What is edge security? When the security rails are deployed closer to the user, it is called Edge Security Should I use VPC Service Controls? Not so. These…
Compute Engine Restrict Access – restrict service accounts in GCP
Two relevant roles to assign to IAM user – Compute Instance Admin and Service Account User. roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1, roles/iam.serviceAccountUser Note the prefixes on these two. The instanceAdmin is related to…
Intrusion Prevention Features in Firewalls – General
1. traffic flow inspection to stop exploits using signature-based detection. 2. Block known bad URLs and monitor fully qualified domain names
Changing Client IPs? Use this solution in GCP
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