Book Image

Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

By : Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni
Book Image

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)
16
Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
17
Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II
18
Other Books You May Enjoy

5

Understanding Google Cloud Identity

In this chapter, we will look at Google Cloud Identity, which is Google’s Identity as a Service (IDaaS) and Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) product. We will cover aspects such as directory management, how to create and manage user accounts and groups, and how to sync directory services such as Active Directory using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). There are other features and services that will be covered, including Single Sign-On (SSO) and device and application management.

Furthermore, we will look at how you can use Google Cloud Identity to enforce 2-step verification (2SV), password management, session management, and reporting and admin log activity. As the topics within Cloud Identity are very broad and cover some aspects that are related to Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite), we will limit our discussion in this chapter to the topics that are relevant to the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer exam...