Ensure separation of duties for KMS admin and key user roles
KMS admin and key user roles should be assigned to different principals.
Security Impact
Combined roles allow administrators to access encrypted data.
How to Remediate
Ensure no principal has both cloudkms.admin and encrypterDecrypter roles.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- gcp-kms-3
- Service
- Google Cloud KMS
- Category
- Access Control
- Severity
- HIGH
- CIS Benchmark
- 1.13
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