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GCP Vertex AI Workbench Notebook Secure Boot Disabled

The instance will boot unsigned or modified firmware, so a compromise below the operating system survives reinstalls and is invisible to it.

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Google Cloudprovider
Lowseverity
Riskwhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

Exposure and fragility, security posture and single points of failure.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Enable Secure Boot on the Workbench notebook.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Vertex AI Workbench Notebooks on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. Stop the Workbench instance.
  2. Enable Shielded VM "Secure Boot" (with vTPM + integrity monitoring).

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Security. Risky configurations: privileged containers, containers running as root, host networking, ingress without TLS.
Where it appears
The Risk tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1236
Full reference

GCP Vertex AI Workbench Notebook Secure Boot Disabled

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