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Shielded Nodes

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Shielded Nodes

Ensure that shielded nodes setting is enabled for all Kubernetes clusters.

Shielded GKE nodes give strong cryptographic identity. This prevents attackers from being able to impersonate a node in your GKE cluster even if the attacker can extract the node credentials.

Recommended Actions

Ensure that shielded nodes setting is enabled in your GKE cluster

Links

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/shielded-gke-nodes

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