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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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Threat detection

Google Cloud provides several types of threat detection via SCC Premium:

  • Event Threat Detection
  • Container Threat Detection
  • VM Threat Detection
  • Anomaly Detection

Let us start with ETD.

Event Threat Detection

Event Threat Detection (ETD) is a built-in feature of the SCC Premium tier that watches your Google Cloud environment in real time and detects threats within your systems. New detectors are added to ETD regularly to discover emerging threats at cloud scale.

ETD produces security findings by matching events in your Cloud Logging and Google Workspace log streams to known indicators of compromise (IoCs). IoCs, developed by internal Google security sources, identify potential vulnerabilities and attacks. ETD also detects threats by identifying known adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures in your logging stream, and by detecting deviations from the historically observed behavior of your Google Cloud organization.

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