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Instance Public Access Disabled

HIGH

Source

CloudSploit

instance-public-access-disabled

management console

Instance Public Access Disabled

Ensures that compute instances are not configured to allow public access.

Compute Instances should always be configured behind load balancers instead of having public IP addresses

Recommended Actions

Modify compute instances and set External IP to None for network interface

Links

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/reserve-static-external-ip-address

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