Ensure Confidential Computing is enabled for sensitive workloads
Confidential VMs should be used for workloads processing sensitive data.
Security Impact
Without Confidential Computing, data in memory can be accessed.
How to Remediate
Create instances with Confidential VM enabled using compatible machine types.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- gcp-compute-10
- Service
- Google Compute Engine
- Category
- Data Protection
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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