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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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Summary

In this chapter, we explored various powerful features of Cloud IAM, including principals, roles, IAM policies, and service accounts. We gained insights into effective service account key management and learned how to detect potential issues when keys are checked into Git. Additionally, we discovered the versatility of IAM conditions and adopted best practices for creating robust IAM policies. We also delved into Cloud Storage ACLs and their ability to provide fine-grained access control. Armed with this knowledge, you are now equipped to confidently set up IAM policies for any workloads in Google Cloud, troubleshoot access problems, and implement the recommended best practices we discussed. We even delved into advanced features such as IAM Policy Intelligence and WIF.

As we conclude this chapter on Google Cloud’s IAM features, the upcoming chapters will focus on exploring the robust network security capabilities of Google Cloud.