Control: GCP > CIS v2.0 > 4 - Virtual Machines > 4.05 - Ensure 'Enable Connecting to Serial Ports' Is Not Enabled for VM Instance

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

Interacting with a serial port is often referred to as the serial console, which is similar to using a terminal window, in that input and output is entirely in text mode and there is no graphical interface or mouse support.

If you enable the interactive serial console on an instance, clients can attempt to connect to that instance from any IP address. Therefore interactive serial console support should be disabled.

Resource Types

This control targets the following resource types:

GCP > Compute Engine > Instance

Primary Policies

The following policies can be used to configure this control:

4.05 - Ensure 'Enable Connecting to Serial Ports' Is Not Enabled for VM Instance

In Your Workspace

Developers

Control Type URI

tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0405

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v070902

GraphQL

query controlType(id: "tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0405") { … }

query controls(filter: "controlTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0405'") { … }

CLI

Get Controls

turbot graphql controls --filter "controlTypeId:tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0405"