Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer Exam Dumps - Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Cloud Armor helps to protect applications from DDoS attacks and web application firewall (WAF) threats like XSS and SQLi. To use Google Cloud Armor security policies, certain requirements must be met:

External Load Balancers: Google Cloud Armor is specifically designed to work with external HTTP(S) load balancers, which handle traffic at the edge of the Google Cloud network. This type of load balancer provides a global frontend that can distribute traffic to various backends.

Load Balancing Scheme: The backend service associated with the Google Cloud Armor policy must have an EXTERNAL load balancing scheme. This scheme allows the service to accept traffic from outside the Google Cloud network, which is necessary for applying security policies effectively at the network edge.

These requirements ensure that Google Cloud Armor can inspect and filter incoming traffic before it reaches your web application's backend services, providing an additional layer of security against common web vulnerabilities.

References

Google Cloud Armor Documentation

External HTTP(S) Load Balancing Overview

To ensure that each team's service account has the necessary permissions to manage resources within their assigned folders while adhering to the principle of least privilege, the following considerations apply:​

Folder Administrator Role: Granting each service account the Folder Administrator role on its respective folder provides comprehensive permissions to manage resources within that folder, including creating, updating, and deleting projects and resources. This approach ensures that teams have the necessary control over their environments without extending permissions beyond their assigned scope.​

Principle of Least Privilege: By assigning permissions at the folder level, you limit the service account's access to only the resources within its designated folder, aligning with the principle of least privilege and reducing the risk of unauthorized access to other parts of the organization.​

Therefore, Option A is the most effective approach, as it provides the necessary permissions for teams to manage their resources within their assigned folders while adhering to security best practices.​

References:

Understanding Roles

Best Practices for Enterprise Organizations

Requirement:

Enforce the use of Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for all new Cloud Storage resources in the organization.

Policy Constraint:

Use the constraints/gcp.restrictNonCmekServices constraint to enforce CMEK usage.

Policy Type and Value:

Set the policy type to allow to specify which services must use CMEK.

In this case, the policy value should be storage.googleapis.com to target Cloud Storage.

Command:

Applying the organization policy with the appropriate binding ensures that all new Cloud Storage resources under the organization will require CMEK.

Steps:

Step 1: Go to the Google Cloud Console.

Step 2: Navigate to the Organization Policies page.

Step 3: Apply the policy constraint constraints/gcp.restrictNonCmekServices with the allow policy type and storage.googleapis.com as the policy value.

References:

Organization Policy Constraints

Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/access-control#considerations roles/logging.privateLogViewer (Private Logs Viewer) includes all the permissions contained by roles/logging.viewer, plus the ability to read Data Access audit logs in the _Default bucket.

Objective: Migrate ongoing data backup and disaster recovery solutions to GCP.

Solution: Use Cloud Storage with scheduled tasks and gsutil.

Steps:

Step 1: Set up a Cloud Interconnect to ensure stable networking connectivity between the on-premises environment and GCP.

Step 2: Create a Cloud Storage bucket to store backups.

Step 3: Use gsutil, a command-line tool for Cloud Storage, to create scripts for data transfer.

Step 4: Schedule these scripts using cron jobs or another scheduling tool to automate the backup process.

Using Cloud Storage with scheduled tasks and gsutil ensures efficient and reliable backup and disaster recovery while leveraging stable connectivity provided by Cloud Interconnect.

References:

Cloud Storage Documentation

gsutil Tool Documentation

Cloud Interconnect Documentation

When you use a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) to secure a Cloud Storage bucket, the key and the bucket must be located in the same region. In this case, the key is in europe-west3 and the bucket is in europe-west1, which is why you’re unable to access the key.

Cloud Asset Inventory: Using Cloud Asset Inventory allows you to quickly identify all the external assets and resources in your Google Cloud environment. This includes information about your projects, instances, storage buckets, and more. This step is crucial for understanding the scope of your audit. Network Security Scanner: Once you have identified the external assets, you can run a network security scanner to assess the security of these assets. Network security scanners can help identify vulnerabilities and potential security risks quickly.