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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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Log categories

In this section, we broadly divide logs into three categories. We will look at each category from the perspective of security.

Figure 12.3 – Log categories

Figure 12.3 – Log categories

Figure 12.3 illustrates the different types of log categories: security logs, user logs, and platform logs. Security logs consist of admin activity logs, data access logs, system event logs, and transparency logs. User logs are generated by user software, services, or applications and are written to Cloud Logging using a logging agent, the Cloud Logging API, or the Cloud Logging client libraries. Google Cloud Platform logs are service-specific logs that can help you better understand the Google Cloud services you’re using. VPC flow logs, firewall logs, and other API logs are examples of platform logs.

Our focus will be only on logs that are useful from a security perspective. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we will only look at the security logs category. We...