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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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Logging and auditing best practices

In this last section, we will cover some logging and auditing best practices. From an exam perspective, you are not really tested with questions on these practices, but you may find indirect references to them. Since Data Access audit logs are not enabled by default, it’s important that you review and enable Data Access audit logs for relevant services.

Note

You can find more details on how to enable these logs at https://packt.link/w0ZWY.

Let’s look at some best practices for logging and auditing:

  • Ensure that you specify the correct log storage destination—Google Cloud Storage for archival and retention and BigQuery for analytics and forensics
  • Configure appropriate permissions for the access of your logs
  • Ensure that sensitive data is stripped from the logs before they are stored
  • Periodically review your audit logs that are stored in Cloud Logging, BigQuery, or your third-party SIEM solutions
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