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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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Advanced Network Security

In this chapter, we will look at advanced network security. This chapter is an extension of the previous chapter and part of the overall network security domain. The chapter will focus more on how to secure your Google Cloud environment using the advanced network security features that are available on Google Cloud. In this chapter, we will be discussing context-aware security and its related topics, such as Identity-Aware Proxy and Private Google Access. We will explore their purpose and learn how to configure them for various use cases.

After that, we will look at Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), where you can define a context-aware approach to secure your cloud resources. To secure your web applications on Google Cloud, we will look at web application firewalls, followed by learning how you can use services such as Cloud Armor to protect your environment from distributed denial-of-service attacks. We conclude this chapter by looking at...