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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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Establishing and maintaining trust

Data privacy and the protection of customer data are critical in establishing trust. There is no shortcut to it: time and experience are the only two factors that help in maintaining and establishing trust. Translating that to the cloud means that customers don’t have the luxury of spending time testing whether a cloud service provider (CSP) can be trusted. Therefore, CSPs such as Google Cloud use compliance in order to demonstrate and establish trust.

Google creates trust by means of transparency. The Google Cloud Enterprise Privacy Commitments dictate how Google Cloud protects the privacy of its customers. Let’s take a look at the privacy principles that Google defines:

  • As a customer, you control and own your data. You define and control where you want to store your data (in terms of geographical location), and only you can decide where you want to move/copy your data to. Google does not have any control over copying or...