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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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Key management options

In this section, we will cover several aspects of key management that are either Google-managed or customer-managed. It is important to know which option is best suited to which scenario so that you can make the right decision for a given use case.

Google Cloud’s default encryption

Google Cloud stores all data encrypted at rest using a Google-managed default encryption key. The key is the AES-256 symmetric encryption key. There is no setup of keys or configuration required to turn on this option; all data by default uses this type of encryption. Google manages the keys and the rotation period of those keys. Google Cloud’s default encryption is best suited for those customers who do not have specific requirements related to compliance or regional requirements for cryptographic key material. It is simple to use and does not require additional configuration to create keys, hence there is no cost to use it.

Customer-managed encryption keys...