Impact: Managed Instance Group Autoscaling Set To Maximum

This document describes a threat finding type in Security Command Center. Threat findings are generated by threat detectors when they detect a potential threat in your cloud resources. For a full list of available threat findings, see Threat findings index.

Overview

A managed instance group was configured for maximum autoscaling. Findings are classified as Low severity by default.

Detection service

Event Threat Detection

How to respond

To respond to this finding, do the following:

Review finding details

  1. Open the Impact: Managed Instance Group Autoscaling Set To Maximum finding as directed in Reviewing findings. Review the details in the Summary and JSON tabs.

  2. Identify other findings that occurred at a similar time for this resource. Related findings might indicate that this activity was malicious, instead of a failure to follow best practices.

  3. Review the settings of the affected resource.

  4. Check the logs for the affected resource.

Research attack and response methods

Review the MITRE ATT&CK framework entry for this finding type: Resource Hijacking.

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