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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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Trust and Compliance

In this chapter, we will look at the very important aspects of trust and compliance. The first part of the chapter focuses on trust, including how Google enables security and privacy and provides customers with full transparency. We will walk through examples of how you can access transparency logs and how they are used. The last part of the chapter covers the different compliance standards and programs that Google Cloud is compliant with, and how you can gain access to compliance reports. We will look at ways to access compliance reports using Compliance Reports Manager.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Security and data privacy
  • Building trust using access transparency and access approval
  • Understanding compliance on Google Cloud