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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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Google Cloud Security Concepts

In this chapter, we will cover Google Cloud’s security and compliance fundamentals. We will take a look at how Google Cloud secures its cloud infrastructure using strategies such as defense in depth and zero trust. On the compliance side, we will look at different compliance standards and frameworks that Google Cloud is compliant with. Google has a unique approach to shared security responsibility and recently adopted the shared fate concept. We will look at these ideas to get a better understanding of Google’s responsibility and the customer’s responsibility when it comes to security.

After that, we will look at the key pillars of security that Google applies to build a trusted infrastructure that doesn’t rely on a single technology but has multiple stacks. We will get a better understanding of each of those stacks and how and where they are applied. Finally, we will briefly cover aspects such as threat and vulnerability...