Policy: 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.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

GCP > SQL > Instance

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

GCP > CIS v5.0 > 6 - Cloud SQL Database Services

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

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

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per GCP > CIS v5.0 > 6 - Cloud SQL Database Services`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per GCP > CIS v5.0 > 6 - Cloud SQL Database Services` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

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

GraphQL

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

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0606'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0606'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0606"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/gcp-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0606"