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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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Resource Management

In this chapter, we will look at resource management and understand some of the key components, such as projects, folders, and organizations. When building your environment on Google Cloud, these components can help you do segmentation at a macro level. We will also look at organizational policy constraints, some of the pre-built constraints that are available, and how the inheritance of policy works for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and firewall rules. We will also cover Cloud Asset Inventory, which is an essential part of resource management, and its role from a security perspective. We will end the chapter with some best practices and design considerations for resource management.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Google Cloud Resource Manager
  • The resource hierarchy
  • The Organization Policy Service
  • Organization Policy constraints
  • Policy inheritance
  • Hierarchical firewall policies
  • Cloud...