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# Ensure API Server Only Uses Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

### More Info:

Ensure that the API server is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers.

### Risk Level

Medium

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Remediation">
    ### Remediation

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        Run the following command on the Control Plane node: ps -ef | grep kube-apiserver Verify that the --tls-cipher-suites argument is set as outlined in the remediationprocedure below.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deployment-Best-Practices#23-use-secure-cipher-suites](https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deployment-Best-Practices#23-use-secure-cipher-suites)