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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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Google Cloud Identity and Access Management

In this chapter, we will explore Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), an essential service to comprehend for the exam. With IAM, you can authorize cloud services, and assign appropriate access to users and applications. Acquiring a good understanding of IAM is crucial to ensure that your cloud implementation follows the principle of least privilege, restricting access to only what is necessary.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of IAM
  • IAM roles and permissions
  • Service accounts
  • IAM policy bindings
  • IAM conditions
  • Cloud Storage, IAM, and ACLs
  • Logging and IAM APIs