How to find and delete idle GCP Projects

13 · Gianluca Brindisi · Oct. 11, 2020, 9:40 a.m.
A constant source of pain in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and everywhere else is the amount of unmaintained resources: idle virtual machines, old buckets, IAM policies, DNS records and so on. They contribute to the attack surface and the chance of a vulnerability increase with time. Shutting off resources is a such a low hanging fruit from a risk perspective that as a security engineer you should make it a daily habit. After all the most secure computer is the one that’s been turned off! How to f...