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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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Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how Google Cloud establishes trust using transparency and applies privacy principles backed up by independent audits and compliance. We also covered two key products that help customers establish trust: Access Transparency and Access Approval. In terms of ensuring the security and privacy of data, we covered the controls available, such as encryption and KMS. Furthermore, we looked at the importance of data residency and how Google Cloud provides capabilities, features, and products to support the localization of data. We covered third-party and vendor risk assessments and the support that Google Cloud extends in helping customers to be compliant with regulatory requirements. Finally, we covered aspects of compliance in the cloud such as how you can download Google Cloud compliance reports, standards, and an overview of achieving continuous compliance in the cloud.

In the next chapter, we will cover the resource hierarchy in Google Cloud.

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