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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 NAT is a topic that does not appear a lot in the exam. However, it is important to know how it works and the use cases for why you would need NAT. We will also look at the Google Cloud implementation of NAT architecture, which is different from the traditional NAT architecture.

Figure 8.15 – Cloud NAT allowing outbound connections only to the internet

Figure 8.15 – Cloud NAT allowing outbound connections only to the internet

Figure 8.15 shows how Google Cloud NAT works. Cloud NAT is offered as a managed service that provides high availability and seamless scalability. It allows outbound connections only to the internet, whereas inbound traffic is allowed only if it is in response to a connection initiated by an instance. Cloud NAT is a regional resource, fully distributed and software-defined. There are no intermediate NAT proxies in the data path. NAT configuration is stored in the control plane and is pushed to the hosts; this means NAT keeps working regardless of the control plane state, and there are...