diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
index d63592779d7d4..a44f6643c086a 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
@@ -299,6 +299,13 @@ testClusters {
   all testClustersConfiguration
 }
 
+/**
+ * Used for testing getting credentials from GCE
+ */
+test {
+  environment 'NO_GCE_CHECK', 'true'
+}
+
 /*
  * We only use a small amount of data in these tests, which means that the resumable upload path is not tested. We add
  * an additional test that forces the large blob threshold to be small to exercise the resumable upload path.
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy b/plugins/repository-gcs/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
index b4d34ce8ba683..48af969b04dc3 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/src/main/plugin-metadata/plugin-security.policy
@@ -43,5 +43,4 @@ grant {
 
   // gcs client set Authenticator for proxy username/password
   permission java.net.NetPermission "setDefaultAuthenticator";
-  permission java.io.FilePermission "/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name", "read";
 };