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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 IAM

In the previous chapter, we discussed Cloud Identity and its role in authentication, user management, and device management in Google Cloud and Google Workspace. Now, let us explore IAM, which focuses on authorization in Google Cloud. Authorization is a key principle of cloud computing, addressing various requirements and ensuring secure access to resources. Some of the problems it solves are the following:

  • How do I grant access to people and workloads?
  • How do I provide time-bound access?
  • How do I create service accounts with the least privilege?
  • How do I enable services in a particular project but not others?
  • How do I grant just the right access to users?
  • How do I operate in multi-cloud environments?
  • How do I find over-provisioned access?
  • How do I troubleshoot access issues?
Figure 6.1 – IAM overview

Figure 6.1 – IAM overview

In Figure 6.1, you can see how IAM works on the principle of who (identity) has what access...