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CIS Google Cloud Platform v3.0.0 L1

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Audit Details

Name: CIS Google Cloud Platform v3.0.0 L1

Updated: 9/16/2025

Authority: CIS

Plugin: GCP

Revision: 1.2

Estimated Item Count: 49

File Details

Filename: CIS_Google_Cloud_Platform_v3.0.0_L1.audit

Size: 155 kB

MD5: c0471947135b291b4e4baf9f1cf2d680
SHA256: e001e3d7ca42912c64e75aea97c91dca475284a1c40a96dc8cf78eb97eb5f502

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.1 Ensure that Corporate Login Credentials are Used
1.2 Ensure that Multi-Factor Authentication is 'Enabled' for All Non-Service Accounts
1.4 Ensure That There Are Only GCP-Managed Service Account Keys for Each Service Account
1.5 Ensure That Service Account Has No Admin Privileges
1.6 Ensure That IAM Users Are Not Assigned the Service Account User or Service Account Token Creator Roles at Project Level
1.7 Ensure User-Managed/External Keys for Service Accounts Are Rotated Every 90 Days or Fewer
1.9 Ensure That Cloud KMS Cryptokeys Are Not Anonymously or Publicly Accessible
1.10 Ensure KMS Encryption Keys Are Rotated Within a Period of 90 Days
1.16 Ensure Essential Contacts is Configured for Organization
1.17 Ensure Secrets are Not Stored in Cloud Functions Environment Variables by Using Secret Manager
2.1 Ensure That Cloud Audit Logging Is Configured Properly
2.2 Ensure That Sinks Are Configured for All Log Entries
2.4 Ensure Log Metric Filter and Alerts Exist for Project Ownership Assignments/Changes
2.5 Ensure That the Log Metric Filter and Alerts Exist for Audit Configuration Changes
2.6 Ensure That the Log Metric Filter and Alerts Exist for Custom Role Changes
2.12 Ensure That Cloud DNS Logging Is Enabled for All VPC Networks
2.13 Ensure Cloud Asset Inventory Is Enabled
3.2 Ensure Legacy Networks Do Not Exist for Older Projects
3.3 Ensure That DNSSEC Is Enabled for Cloud DNS
3.4 Ensure That RSASHA1 Is Not Used for the Key-Signing Key in Cloud DNS DNSSEC
3.5 Ensure That RSASHA1 Is Not Used for the Zone-Signing Key in Cloud DNS DNSSEC
3.9 Ensure No HTTPS or SSL Proxy Load Balancers Permit SSL Policies With Weak Cipher Suites
4.1 Ensure That Instances Are Not Configured To Use the Default Service Account
4.2 Ensure That Instances Are Not Configured To Use the Default Service Account With Full Access to All Cloud APIs
4.3 Ensure 'Block Project-Wide SSH Keys' Is Enabled for VM Instances
4.4 Ensure Oslogin Is Enabled for a Project
4.5 Ensure 'Enable Connecting to Serial Ports' Is Not Enabled for VM Instance
4.6 Ensure That IP Forwarding Is Not Enabled on Instances
5.1 Ensure That Cloud Storage Bucket Is Not Anonymously or Publicly Accessible
6.1.1 Ensure That a MySQL Database Instance Does Not Allow Anyone To Connect With Administrative Privileges
6.1.2 Ensure 'Skip_show_database' Database Flag for Cloud SQL MySQL Instance Is Set to 'On'
6.1.3 Ensure That the 'Local_infile' Database Flag for a Cloud SQL MySQL Instance Is Set to 'Off'
6.2.2 Ensure That the 'Log_connections' Database Flag for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Instance Is Set to 'On'
6.2.3 Ensure That the 'Log_disconnections' Database Flag for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Instance Is Set to 'On'
6.2.5 Ensure that the 'Log_min_messages' Flag for a Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Instance is set at minimum to 'Warning'
6.2.6 Ensure 'Log_min_error_statement' Database Flag for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Instance Is Set to 'Error' or Stricter
6.2.7 Ensure That the 'Log_min_duration_statement' Database Flag for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Instance Is Set to '-1' (Disabled)
6.2.8 Ensure That 'cloudsql.enable_pgaudit' Database Flag for each Cloud Sql Postgresql Instance Is Set to 'on' For Centralized Logging
6.3.1 Ensure 'external scripts enabled' database flag for Cloud SQL SQL Server instance is set to 'off'
6.3.2 Ensure that the 'cross db ownership chaining' database flag for Cloud SQL SQL Server instance is set to 'off'
6.3.3 Ensure 'user Connections' Database Flag for Cloud Sql Sql Server Instance Is Set to a Non-limiting Value
6.3.4 Ensure 'user options' database flag for Cloud SQL SQL Server instance is not configured
6.3.5 Ensure 'remote access' database flag for Cloud SQL SQL Server instance is set to 'off'
6.3.6 Ensure '3625 (trace flag)' database flag for all Cloud SQL Server instances is set to 'on'
6.3.7 Ensure that the 'contained database authentication' database flag for Cloud SQL on the SQL Server instance is not set to 'on'
6.4 Ensure That the Cloud SQL Database Instance Requires All Incoming Connections To Use SSL
6.5 Ensure That Cloud SQL Database Instances Do Not Implicitly Whitelist All Public IP Addresses
6.7 Ensure That Cloud SQL Database Instances Are Configured With Automated Backups
7.1 Ensure That BigQuery Datasets Are Not Anonymously or Publicly Accessible