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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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Virtual Private Cloud

In this chapter, we will look at Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The chapter will focus on the network security concepts within Google Cloud, although we will cover some foundational networking concepts that are essential. We will begin by looking at how Google Cloud’s global footprint is structured with regard to different regions and zones. Then, we will cover the key concepts of VPC, such as global VPC versus regional, how to create custom IP address subnets, micro-segmentation, custom routing, and the different types of firewall rules and their usage. We will look at some design patterns for VPC, focusing on shared VPC in particular and its importance from a security perspective, and we’ll get an overview of the different types of connectivity options that are available to connect Google Cloud to your on-premises or third-party cloud provider using different options. Finally, we will look at DNSSEC and some load balancer options...