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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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In this section, we will cover two topics: how you can access the compliance reports that are made available by Google Cloud, and some of the tools and capabilities that are available to achieve continuous compliance in the cloud.

Google products undergo compliance reviews by independent third parties, and the relevant compliance reports are made available to customers. There are two sets of compliance reports: one set can be downloaded from the Google Cloud website and is generally available to anyone; the other set can be requested by a Google Technical Account Manager (TAM) if the Google customer has a TAM assigned to their organization. You can find Google Cloud’s compliance reports here: https://packt.link/eaDuj. New Google Cloud products often have a delay of a few months before they are added to the compliance scope. Google has a scheduled review cycle, and new products are added based on that. Each product undergoes SOC 2 and ISO audits first...