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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 replication policy

Secrets are a global resource entity; however, secret payloads (the underlying secret material) are stored locally within a region. Some regulated customers such as financial and healthcare institutions may have strict regionalization requirements, while other customers may want to store the secret near the data. A replication policy allows control over where secret payloads are stored.

There are two replication policy types: automatic and user-managed.

Automatic

With the automatic policy type, the replication of the secret is managed by Google. This policy provides the highest level of availability:

  • When a secret has an automatic replication policy, its payload data is copied as many times as needed. This is the easiest way to set things up, and most users should choose it. This is the policy that is used by default when a secret is created using the Google Cloud CLI or the web UI.
  • A secret that is automatically replicated is stored in...