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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide
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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

by Ankush Chowdhary, Prashant Kulkarni
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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6

Google Cloud Identity and Access Management

In this chapter, we will explore Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), an essential service to comprehend for the exam. With IAM, you can authorize cloud services, and assign appropriate access to users and applications. Acquiring a good understanding of IAM is crucial to ensure that your cloud implementation follows the principle of least privilege, restricting access to only what is necessary.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of IAM
  • IAM roles and permissions
  • Service accounts
  • IAM policy bindings
  • IAM conditions
  • Cloud Storage, IAM, and ACLs
  • Logging and IAM APIs

Overview of IAM

In the previous chapter, we discussed Cloud Identity and its role in authentication, ...

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