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Compliance · Medium severity

GCP VM Shielded VM Not Enabled

The VM will boot modified firmware or a tampered kernel without detection, so a persistent compromise survives reinstalls.

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Google Cloudprovider
Mediumseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

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 Shielded VM on Compute Engine VM.

03

Fix

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

Applies to
Compute Engine on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. Verify the VM boot image supports Shielded VM (most public images do; custom images need UEFI).
  2. Stop the VM: gcloud compute instances stop ‹name› --zone=‹zone›.
  3. Enable Shielded options: gcloud compute instances update ‹name› --zone=‹zone› --shielded-secure-boot --shielded-vtpm --shielded-integrity-monitoring.
  4. Start the VM: gcloud compute instances start ‹name› --zone=‹zone›.
  5. Watch Cloud Logging for any integrity-monitoring failures over the next 24h. Failures show under compute.googleapis.com/shielded_vm_integrity.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1203
Full reference

GCP VM Shielded VM Not Enabled

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