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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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Overview of Google Cloud Resource Manager

Google Cloud Resource Manager acts like a container for your cloud resources, allowing you to group your resources in a hierarchical way within the project, folder, or organization. Think of Resource Manager as a high-level way to perform macro-level segmentation. This not only helps you define the entire organization’s structure but also the implementation of security guardrails that can be inherited. More on this in the Policy inheritance section.

Figure 4.1 is an example of how you can structure your organization on Google Cloud. The top-level organization is where all your other components such as folders and projects are created. Organizing your resources in a hierarchical way lets you manage aspects such as access control and other configuration settings. The same applies to IAM policies, which can be applied at different levels and are then inherited top-down.

Figure 4.1 – Organization hierarchy

Figure 4.1 – Organization hierarchy...