Policy: GCP > CIS v1 > 7 Kubernetes Engine > 7.10 Ensure Basic Authentication is disabled on Kubernetes Engine Clusters (Scored)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Scored)

Basic authentication allows a user to authenticate to the cluster with a username and password and it is stored in plain text without any encryption. Disabling Basic authentication will prevent attacks like brute force. Its recommended to use either client certificate or IAM for authentication.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

GCP > CIS v1 > 7 Kubernetes Engine

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

GCP > CIS v1 > 7 Kubernetes Engine > 7.10 Ensure Basic Authentication is disabled on Kubernetes Engine Clusters (Scored)

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per GCP > CIS v1`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per GCP > CIS v1` `Skip` `Check: Level 1 (Scored)`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v0716

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv1#/policy/types/r0710"