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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 lifecycle management

While operating your workloads, you need to manage the lifecycle of your keys. The US National Information Standards Institute (NIST) special publication (SP) 800-57, Part 1 describes a key management lifecycle that is divided into four phases: pre-operational, operational, post-operational, and destroyed.

The following section provides a mapping of the NIST lifecycle functions from the publication to Google Cloud KMS lifecycle functions.

  1. The Pre-operational lifecycle phase is mapped to the following:
    1. NIST section 8.1.4 Keying-Material Installation Function: The equivalent Cloud KMS operation is Key import.
    2. NIST section 8.1.5 Key Establishment Function: The equivalent Cloud KMS operation is Key creation (symmetric, asymmetric).
  2. The Operational lifecycle phase is mapped to the following:
    1. NIST section 8.2.1 Normal Operational Storage Function: The equivalent Cloud KMS operation is Key creation in SOFTWARE, HSM, or EXTERNAL protection levels (symmetric...