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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

We covered a lot of ground in this and the previous chapter when it comes to container security. We went over the basics of CI/CD security and then we understood what containers are. Kubernetes paved the way for modernizing applications. The deployments that used to take hours are now deployed in minutes and it’s also done several times a day. Kubernetes also makes it easy to scale deployments. GKE is Google’s managed offering for Kubernetes, which takes away the pain of management and the complexity. GKE is headed toward more robust, self-healing features. Granted, container and Kubernetes security can be quite challenging to understand, but our hope is that these last two chapters made it easy for you to get a solid foundation.

Congratulations! You have reached the end of this book. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We have covered a lot of ground on the different security offerings in Google Cloud, and we...