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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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Third-party risk assessments

A third-party risk assessment or vendor risk assessment is often a requirement for many regulated customers who want assurance from Google Cloud about specific controls. An example of this would be a financial institution such as a bank that wants to host workloads on Google Cloud and needs Google Cloud to complete a vendor questionnaire. Google Cloud provides self-assessment questionnaires. These are complimentary documents that cover Google Cloud’s security controls and can help customers assess the security of their service. These self-assessments are available via Google Compliance Manager, which can be accessed here: https://packt.link/B15d7.

Some of the available assessments are as follows:

  • Google Cloud’s Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR self-assessment is available here: https://packt.link/rnqoe.
  • The Standardized Information Gathering (SIG) core questionnaire can be accessed by customers to perform an initial assessment...