It's important to take application security as seriously as we take infrastructure security. Applications are one of the main targets of attacks, and GCP aids in this through the Cloud Security Scanner service. Of course, we know security is an extremely important topic and Cloud Security Scanner supports us in the early detection of vulnerabilities in our services.
When you create a scan, you can set this to scan URLs that your Compute Engine instance, App Engine instance, or GKE instance hosts and likewise exclude URLs. It will detect common vulnerabilities such as flash injection, mixed content, clear-text password, and cross-site scripting. We can also set a schedule for scans or perform them manually. It should be noted that Cloud Scanner can generate a real load against your application, so performance should be taken into consideration as some...