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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

By : Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni
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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

By: Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Google Cloud security offers powerful controls to assist organizations in establishing secure and compliant cloud environments. With this book, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of the Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam objectives, including Google Cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), network security, data security, and security operations. The chapters go beyond the exam essentials, helping you explore advanced topics such as Google Cloud Security Command Center, the BeyondCorp Zero Trust architecture, and container security. With step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and practice exams to help you improve your skills for the exam, you'll be able to efficiently review and apply key concepts of the shared security responsibility model. Finally, you’ll get to grips with securing access, organizing cloud resources, network and data security, and logging and monitoring. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in designing, developing, and operating security controls on Google Cloud and gain insights into emerging concepts for future exams.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
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Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II
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Secret Manager

In this chapter, we will look at Google Cloud Secret Manager. A secret is any piece of data that needs to be protected, such as passwords, encryption keys, API keys, certificate private keys, and other sensitive information. Secrets can be stored in a secure and encrypted format using Google Cloud Secret Manager. Applications that run on the cloud platform often need to be able to securely store secrets and rotate them as needed. The secrets should also provide redundancy in the event that a region goes down. Traditionally, secrets were stored in configuration files embedded within the application using some form of encryption or in clear text. However, a secure way of storing secrets is by using Secret Manager. Secret Manager is a native offering on Google Cloud to store application secrets such as database passwords or API keys. It provides a single place to store application secrets and be able to manage access and audit who did what.

In this chapter, we...