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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 covered what VPC is and the concepts of regions and zones and how they are designed. We looked at VPC models such as Shared VPC and VPC peering. We covered micro-segmentation strategies such as custom routing, firewall rules, and subnets. We then looked at how to configure Cloud DNS and enable DNSSEC. We covered topics related to different options that are available for Google Cloud load balancing and hybrid connectivity, and finally, we looked at some VPC best practices and design considerations.

In the next chapter, we will cover Context-Aware Access and some more network security aspects, such as Identity-Aware Proxy, web application firewalls, distributed denial of service protection, and Google Private Access.