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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 KMS best practices

Key access and key ring access are managed by organizing keys into key rings and projects, and by granting IAM roles on the keys, key rings, and projects. As you build out your cloud environment, follow the guidance in the following list for how to design your key resource hierarchy to reduce risk:

  1. Create a dedicated project for Cloud KMS that is separate from workload projects.
  2. Add key rings into the dedicated Cloud KMS project. Create key rings as needed to impose a separation of duties.
  3. Monitor privileged admin operations: key deletion operations for out-of-band key creation are considered a privileged operation.
  4. Review CMEK-related findings in Security Command Center.
  5. Use encryption keys with the appropriate key strength and protection level for data sensitivity or classification. For example, for sensitive data, use keys with a higher strength. Additionally, use encryption keys with different protection levels for different data...