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Ensure that BigQuery Tables should be encrypted

Risk Level

High

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

GDPR, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration of GCP BigQuery Tables should be encrypted, you can follow the below steps using GCP console:

  1. Open the Google Cloud Console and select your project.

  2. In the navigation menu, select “BigQuery” under the “Big Data” section.

  3. Select the dataset that contains the tables you want to encrypt.

  4. Click on the “Encrypt” button in the top menu bar.

  5. Select the “Customer-managed key” option.

  6. Choose the key you want to use to encrypt the data.

  7. Click on the “Encrypt” button to start the encryption process.

  8. Wait for the encryption process to complete.

  9. Once the encryption process is complete, all the tables in the selected dataset will be encrypted using the customer-managed key.

  10. Verify that the tables are encrypted by checking the “Encryption” column in the table list. It should show “Customer-managed key”.

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration of GCP BigQuery Tables should be encrypted.

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