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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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Overview of image management

A Google Compute Engine image is a pre-configured virtual machine (VM) image that can be used to quickly deploy applications and services to Google Compute Engine. An image includes the operating system, configuration settings, and any other software required for the application or service to run. Securing a Google Compute Engine image is important to be able to prevent unauthorized users and malicious software from accessing applications and services. This can be done by setting up strong access control measures with identity and Access Management (IAM) tools, creating secure user accounts, and using encryption and authentication measures. Regularly updating the image with the latest security patches and using intrusion detection and prevention systems can also help protect the image from potential security threats. Let’s understand the concept of image management used for hardening a Compute Engine image.

An image in Compute Engine refers to...