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Ensure that cloud Storage buckets are preferably encrypted using Customer Managed Keys (CMKs)

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

HITRUST, GDPR, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate this misconfiguration for GCP using GCP console, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Google Cloud Console.

  2. Navigate to the Cloud Storage page.

  3. Select the bucket that needs to be encrypted.

  4. Click on the “Edit bucket details” button.

  5. Scroll down to the “Encryption” section.

  6. Select “Customer-managed key” from the drop-down menu.

  7. Choose the key that you want to use to encrypt the bucket.

  8. Click on the “Save” button to apply the changes.

  9. Repeat the above steps for all the buckets that need to be encrypted using customer-managed keys.

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration of not encrypting the buckets using customer-managed keys in GCP using the GCP console.