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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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CMEKs for Secret Manager

By default, secrets are encrypted with Google default encryption. However, some highly regulated customers require control of keys, so Secret Manager supports customer-managed encryption keys (CMEKs) (within Cloud KMS) for encrypting:

Note

However, if you disable or permanently destroy the CMEK, the secret encrypted with that key cannot be decrypted.

  • Secret payloads are encrypted by Google-managed keys before being written to persistent storage with no additional configuration required.
  • Secret Manager encrypts data with a unique data encryption key (DEK) before writing it to persistent storage in a specific location. The Secret Manager service owns a replica-specific key called a key encryption key (KEK), which is used to encrypt the DEK. This is commonly referred to as envelope encryption.
  • The CMEK is a symmetric key that you control within Cloud KMS when using CMEKs with Secret Manager. The CMEK must be stored in the same GCP region...