Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide: Become an expert

Key Features

Prepare for the certification exam with clear explanations, real-world examples, and self-assessment questions

Review Google Cloud security best practices for building a secure and compliant cloud environment

Explore advanced concepts like Security Command Center, BeyondCorp Zero Trust, and container security

Book Description

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 tighten up 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.

What you will learn

Understand how Google secures infrastructure with shared responsibility

Use resource hierarchy for access segregation and implementing policies

Utilize Google Cloud Identity for authentication and authorizations

Build secure networks with advanced network features

Encrypt/decrypt data using Cloud KMS and secure sensitive data

Gain visibility and extend security with Google's logging and monitoring capabilities

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