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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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Cloud Storage ACLs

Cloud Storage provides separate access control in addition to IAM. There are two ways, in fact: a more uniform way of doing access control via IAM and a legacy way of doing access control via fine-grained ACLs. Object ACLs do not appear in the hierarchy of IAM policies, so be aware of how your Cloud Storage buckets are controlled. When evaluating who has access to one of your objects, make sure you check the ACLs for the object, in addition to checking your project- and bucket-level IAM policies. This could get very convoluted, so the recommendation is to use uniform access control using IAM in most cases.

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

You can use an ACL to determine who has access to your buckets and objects, as well as what level of access they have. ACLs are applied to specific buckets and objects in Cloud Storage. There are one or more entries in each ACL. An entry enables a certain user (or group) to carry out specific tasks. Each entry is made up of two...