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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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Google Cloud Key Management Service

In this chapter, we will look at Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). Cloud KMS is a foundational service for all cryptographic operations in Google Cloud. Every workload that you deploy on Google Cloud is going to need the ability to encrypt data and use it for authorized purposes. There are various options presented by Cloud KMS, and it’s essential to understand them and make an informed choice to help with regulatory and audit requirements.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Cloud KMS
  • Encryption and key management in Cloud KMS
  • Key management options
  • Customer-supplied encryption key
  • Symmetric and asymmetric key encryption
  • Bringing your own key to the cloud
  • Key lifecycle management
  • Key IAM permissions
  • Cloud HSM
  • Cloud External Key Manager
  • Cloud KMS best practices
  • Cloud KMS APIs and logging

Let us start by learning about the capabilities of...