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Instance Default Service Account

MEDIUM

Source

CloudSploit

instance-default-service-account

management console

Instance Default Service Account

Ensures that compute instances are not configured to use the default service account.

Default service account has the editor role permissions. Due to security reasons it should not be used for any instance.

Recommended Actions

Make sure that compute instances are not using default service account

Links

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/service-accounts

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