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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 Google Cloud security

The concepts in this chapter don’t appear in the exam and are not part of the exam blueprint. As a Google Cloud security professional who will be responsible for securing enterprise workloads and making them compliant, it’s important that you gain a sound understanding of how Google secures its infrastructure. As a security practitioner myself, I have seen many customers who like to understand aspects such as how the underlying infrastructure is secured, how the hypervisor is secured, how Google achieves multi-tenancy, and which compliance objectives are and are not met. To be able to advise your customers or internal teams, it’s essential to know about these topics.

Google Cloud provides a very comprehensive set of security documentation on these topics and it’s highly recommended that you take the time to read them. This chapter is a summary of some of the key topics that you must know. There are links at the end of...