Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Security on the GCP

This chapter is rather different from virtually every other chapter in this book. The other chapters have mostly focused on the acquisition of skills such as how to provision resources (such as VMs or storage) or how to get results (such as BigQuery), while this chapter is mostly about knowledge such as how Google has gone about planning for security on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You will learn the following topics in this chapter:

• Some of the security features that the GCP provides
• Some tools that the GCP provides for your benefit, but that you still have to use
• Some best practices and design choices that are entirely yours to make

Google has a long history of run-ins with hackers and cybersecurity threats. As ...