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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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Cloud Logging

Logging provides visibility into your environment and aids in troubleshooting and incident response. In this chapter, we will discuss what Cloud Logging is, how it works, the different types of logs and their applications, and how to collect, store, analyze, and export logs. We will also look at who log producers and consumers are and how to export logs to a centralized logging solution or a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system running either on-premises or in the cloud. Finally, we will discuss how to securely store and keep logs to meet regulatory requirements.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Google Cloud Logging
  • Understanding log categories
  • Log management
  • Logging and auditing best practices