Authentication

GKE using certificate based authentication

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks

Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCPA, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, GKE CIS, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, K8s OWASP Top 10, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-190, PDPA, UK Cyber Essentials

Description

A client certificate is a base64-encoded public certificate used by clients to authenticate to the cluster endpoint. Client certificates can authenticate and perform any action on the API server in some scenarios. Orca has detected that {GcpGkeCluster} uses certificate based authentication.
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