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About Shielded VMs
You can enable the Shielded VM service on your Compute Engine VM
instances to help defend against rootkits and bootkits. Shielded VM
leverages advanced platform security capabilities such as
Secure Boot,
Virtual trusted platform module (vTPM)-enabled
Measured Boot, and
Integrity monitoring.
For a more detailed overview, see
Key concepts for Shielded VM.
To get started using Shielded VM, try the
quickstart
or see
Modifying Shielded VM options.
You can monitor the integrity of your Shielded VMs in some of the
following ways:
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Last updated 2025-07-02 UTC.
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