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Ensure that GCP Cloud Monitoring uses HTTPS only for checking the health of backend resources.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud Monitoring Should Use HTTPS For Backend Resource Health Check” for GCP using GCP console, please follow the below steps:

  1. Login to your GCP console.
  2. Go to the Cloud Monitoring page.
  3. In the left navigation menu, select “Uptime Checks”.
  4. Select the uptime check that needs to be remediated.
  5. Click on the “Edit” button.
  6. In the “Check Request” section, select “HTTPS” as the protocol.
  7. In the “Check Request” section, enter the URL of the backend resource.
  8. In the “Check Request” section, select the appropriate HTTP method.
  9. In the “Advanced Settings” section, select “Require valid SSL certificate” checkbox.
  10. Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.

After following the above steps, the misconfiguration “Cloud Monitoring Should Use HTTPS For Backend Resource Health Check” will be remediated for GCP using GCP console.

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