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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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Controlling access to the images

To split workloads, environments, and user access, you will usually need different Google Cloud projects. Although most cloud workloads do not require sharing between projects, images are an excellent choice for doing so. You can follow a consistent approach to distributing images with best practices for security, permission, package management, and operations pre-configured for the rest of the company by using a shared collection of images.

Figure 13.3 – Sharing images between projects

Figure 13.3 – Sharing images between projects

You can share images by giving different IAM roles to different projects inside an organization. Image Creation Project, represented in Figure 13.3, is the project that holds the images that you want to share with other projects, and it must have the following IAM roles and policies applied to it:

  • Allow users of Image User Group to create instances from these images by granting them the compute.imageUser role
  • Allow Image...