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# Ensure Encryption Providers Are Appropriately Configured

### More Info:

Where etcd encryption is used, appropriate providers should be configured.

### Risk Level

Medium

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

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

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        Run the following command on the Control Plane node:ps -ef | grep kube-apiserverGet the EncryptionConfig file set for --encryption-provider-config argument. Verifythat aescbc, kms or secretbox is set as the encryption provider for all the desiredresources.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-data/](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-data/)