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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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Best practices for secret management

Here are some general best practices that Google recommends when it comes to managing secrets:

  • As with pretty much all services in Google Cloud, access to the Secret Manager API is protected by IAM. Follow the principle of least privilege when granting permissions to secrets to your applications.
  • Divide applications and environments (staging/production) into independent projects. This can assist in segregating environments with IAM binding at the project level and guarantee that quotas are implemented independently.
  • If necessary, establish a custom role or choose an existing role with the bare minimum of access. Think about who manages the secret (creates the secret, disables/enables it, or creates a new version) and who uses it, such as developers. You should have a separation of duties between these two roles, especially in production.
  • Use secret-level IAM bindings or IAM conditions to limit access to the necessary subset of...