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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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Summary

This chapter highlights the need for hardening images for both VMs and containers. It outlines the steps for managing images, securing and hardening them, and building image management pipelines. In addition, we discussed the use of cloud-native tools on Google Cloud to build security scanning of the CI/CD pipeline. To further secure applications running in the cloud environment, we explored Google Compute Engine security capabilities such as Shielded VMs, vTPMs, and Confidential Computing. Finally, we discussed various measures for securing containers and applications running inside them, such as network policies to control traffic flow and key management systems for encryption key security and management.

In the next chapter, we will cover Security Command Center, which is used to monitor the security posture of your Google Cloud organization.