Vendor services misconfigurationsGKE cluster is not using Cloud KMS Key for database encryption
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Compliance Frameworks
Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCM-CSA, CCPA, cis_8, coppa, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, GKE CIS, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, K8s OWASP Top 10, Mitre ATT&CK, mpa, New Zealand Information Security Manual, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, PDPA, pipeda, UK Cyber Essentials
Description
When Using Application-layer Secrets Encryption you can use a key that you manage in Cloud KMS, to encrypt data at the application layer. This protects against attackers in the event that they manage to gain access to the etcd database of {GcpGkeCluster}. It was detected that {GcpGkeCluster} is not using Application-layer Secrets Encryption in it's etcd database.
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