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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 IAM permissions

When considering key permissions, think about the hierarchy in which the key exists. A key exists in a key ring, a project, a folder in another folder, or under “Cloud Organization”.

Recall that there are two fundamental security principles IAM enforces:

  • Principle of separation of duties
  • Principle of least privilege

A primary role a principal can play is the Cloud KMS CryptoKey Encrypter/Decrypter role at various levels of the hierarchy. There are several other roles Cloud KMS has based on how you structure it. Please refer to the Google Cloud KMS documentation for the list of other IAM roles: https://packt.link/RyY17.

We have looked at various IAM roles and permissions for Cloud KMS; let us now look at some best practices on how to manage access:

  • Key management roles can be granted based on the culture and process of your enterprises. Traditionally, this role is played by the IT security team.
  • For a large or complex...