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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 SCC

Google introduced SCC in mid-2018. SCC provides many features to monitor your organization’s security controls, detect threats, and use alerts to automate security responses.

Here are some of the key features of SCC:

  • Gain centralized visibility and control over your Google Cloud data and resources:
    • SCC gives enterprises centralized visibility of their cloud assets across App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and more.
    • SCC enables enterprises to quickly find out the number of projects in their environment, what resources are deployed, where sensitive data is located, and which service accounts have been added or removed. You can leverage the SCC REST API to access assets and findings and make it easier to integrate with existing systems.
    • You can view your Google Cloud asset history to understand exactly what changed in your environment and respond to...