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DET-C11: Shielded VM protection weakened on the workload VM

updateShieldedInstanceConfig turned off Secure Boot or the vTPM on the workload VM: the measured-boot chain the attestation depends on is no longer enforced.

Property Value
Severity high
Platform GCP Confidential Space
Group tee
Log source Cloud Audit Logs · Compute
Related check CSPACE-VM-01: Confidential VM runs SEV-SNP with Shielded boot

Fires when

updateShieldedInstanceConfig AND vTPM/integrityMonitoring/secureBoot disabled on the workload VM

How it runs

untrust detect --platform sev-snp reads the project's Cloud Audit Logs over the last --since minutes (default 60).

A match is a detection event with this rule's ID. Upload it to the console to alert on it; see Runtime detections.