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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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IAM policy bindings

In Google Cloud, access is managed through an IAM policy binding. An IAM policy is attached to a particular resource (remember, a resource could be a service account). An IAM policy contains a collection of role bindings that associate with one or more principals.

Recall that a principal could be one or more of the following:

  • A Google account (a Gmail account is a form of Google account)
  • A service account
  • A Google group
  • A Google Workspace account
  • A Cloud Identity domain
  • All authenticated users
  • All users

IAM policy bindings (sometimes simply called bindings) associate a role to the principals both on the resource that the policy is attached to and on all the resource’s descendants (for example, a policy attached to a folder is applicable to all the resources underneath that folder).

Policy structure

IAM policies consist of role definitions and additional details. A role binding determines the resources that can...