Control: GCP > CIS v5.0 > 6 - Cloud SQL Database Services > 6.06 - Ensure Cloud SQL Database Instances Have IAM Database Authentication Enabled

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

It is recommended to enable IAM database authentication for Cloud SQL instances (PostgreSQL and MySQL) to eliminate static password-based authentication and instead use short-lived IAM tokens for database access.

IAM database authentication allows applications and users to authenticate to Cloud SQL databases using IAM principals (service accounts, user accounts) instead of traditional database passwords. When enabled, database users can be created that authenticate via IAM, and connections use automatically-generated, short-lived tokens instead of static passwords.

This recommendation is applicable to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL instances. Cloud SQL for SQL Server does not support IAM database authentication.

Resource Types

This control targets the following resource types:

GCP > SQL > Instance

Policies

This control type relies on these other policies when running actions:

In Your Workspace

Developers

Control Type URI

tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/control/types/r0606

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v071602

GraphQL

query controlType(id: "tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/control/types/r0606") { … }

query controls(filter: "controlTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/control/types/r0606'") { … }

CLI

Get Controls

turbot graphql controls --filter "controlTypeId:tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/control/types/r0606"