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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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Image Hardening and CI/CD Security

In this chapter, we will look at Google’s approach to Compute Engine image hardening and DevOps pipeline security. One of the most critical issues facing industries today is software supply chain attacks. To address this matter in the cloud, we need to be able to build secure infrastructure, monitor operations, and fix vulnerabilities. This is a very broad topic. We will only cover the topics required for the exam in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of image management
  • Custom images for Compute Engine
  • Image management pipeline
  • Controlling access to images
  • Image lifecycle
  • Enforcing lifecycle policies
  • Secure CI/CD pipeline
  • Best practices for a CI/CD pipeline
  • Shielded VMs
  • Confidential computing